#wrath of man 2022

[zketylers]

Josh Hartnett as Boy Sweat Dave in "Wrath of Man" (2022)

[alightinthelantern]

Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

[devildomwriter]

I have been playing Obey Me! OG and NB since October 2022, but I am still confused about the Demon brothers' powers and the dateables. I know Asmo has the power of charm, Barabatos has the power of time, the angels has blessing, and Levi can summon Lotan. If you don't mind, could you explain the powers of Demon brothers and the dateables? Thank you! I love you ❤❤

I can do a long post later but he’s what we know briefly

Lucifer — Natural skill. He can learn and do just about anything. We’ve seen him warp space, read minds, levitate people, and more.

Mammon — anyone in a pact with him has extreme luck especially with money. Despite not mentioning anything beyond this, he’s still stronger than Levi and it’s unknown why.

Leviathan — Leviathan can summon Lotan, breathe under water, summon rains and floods, can control water and speak with aquatic animals.

Satan — Wrath. His wrath is enough to shake buildings. He also has a natural talent for curses and similarly to Lucifer can learn just about anything but I’d say a “power” of his is his ability to befriend anyone and hang on to those high connections.

Asmodeus — The ability to charm others, even Lucifer and inanimate objects.

Beelzebub — Incredible strength. He’s also implied to be skilled with Wind Magic.

Belphegor — Belphegor can send anyone to sleep and can infiltrate and control their dreams/nightmares. He can also learn things while sleeping on the source of information (textbook etc.)

Solomon — Solomon’s ring of wisdom allows him to make intellectual decisions and talk to animals. His magic is also infinite as is his life which happened via an accident.

Simeon — Simeon has the power of an angelic blessing, he was also once the strongest rank of angels before being demoted to a warrior.

Luke — Luke’s angelic powers are said to be exceptional to the point Michael took him under his wing and expects great things of him. His protective blessings are especially“potent”

Raphael — Raphael is the most skilled warrior in the Celestial Realm and has the power to summon a singular spear or rain them down.

Michael — The celestial equal to Lucifer, he is extremely powerful, has a legendary sword, and can shape-shift.

Thirteen — Thirteen can reap souls, leads them to the afterlife, can see the quality of people’s souls, and has powerful magic as seen by the curses she placed in her home against anyone who broke her rules.

Mephistopheles — Mephistopheles is said to be as skilled as Lucifer with magic. If he makes a deal with anyone he can draw in any and all power in existence to see that it is completed.

Barbatos — Barbatos can manipulate time and reality. This skill can essentially do anything. It’s said he is stronger than Diavolo’s father.

Diavolo — there isn’t a damn thing this man can’t do. He creates entire dimensions as he please with a solar system included. He can freeze time, trap people within phones, bring inanimate objects to life and give them SENTIENCE, can magically fertilize plain eggs, controls Barbatos’s ability, and has a realm ready to obey his every word. He is THE OP

[cheriladycl01]

The Rookie Prodigy - Carlos Sainz x Driver! Reader Part 8

Plot: You are a rookie coming into the 2022 season of Formula One into Alfa Romeo with team member Zhou Guanyu, being in a mid tier team can you help them rise up the ranks. What pressures occur for the only rookies within the 2022 line up!

You and Carlos took the flight to Spain from Miami together. After you slept in his hotel room for the night you knew you’d have to stay with him atleast until the Spanish Grand Prix. You felt so unsafe whenever you turned a corner, but being with Carlos made you feel like you weren’t fully alone.

By the time you got to his home it was the middle of the night and nobody was awake. The house was dark and quiet but you could tell that it was his family home from all the dark portraits of him and his family lining the walls in the entry way.

“Is this you?” You ask politely looking at the funny photo of a young toddler Carlos with cake smushed all over his face.

“Yes but don’t … don’t look at that” he sighs trying to pull you away from the many photos of him and his sisters and parents. Those photos then bled into those of his extended family that you did not recognise.

“It’s cute, that your mum and dad keep all this. And that you still have a room here” you smile kindly at him.

“Mmmm, I guess. Look I don’t want to make too much noise, I know my sisters have work early tomorrow so let’s go up to my room” he says taking your wrist to guide you up the stairs.

You follow his every footstep to make sure not to hit any of the planks of wood that will groan under weight. It was clear Carlos knew how to get in quietly. You make it up the large wooden staircase and he walks you carefully down the corridor.

For a minute you feel like a teenager again, no worries in the world apart from the wrath of a teenage boys mothers whose caught the two of you coming back into his room.

But the reason you are here with Carlos isn’t just because he’s snuck you back into his room after a night out. It’s for you safety, as many people out there, don’t like you right now.

Part of you thought it would have been wise to reach out to Lewis and see what he had to say. After all he was a large part to play in all this. At the same time you didn’t want him to feel guilty as though this was his fault.

Once Carlos had quietly shut the door of his room, he helped drag your case into the corner of the room.

“I’ll take the floor and you can take my bed” Carlos says in hushed tones, smiling softly looking over you.

“If you are okay with it, I’d rather share the bed with you. Y-your bed is against the wall, so if you lay next to me i’d feel safer… because no-one could get to me” you say sheepishly.

“You set the rules for us Y/N, it’s better if i go to the floor. I dont want to start something you wont let me finish. No-one can get to you in this house, you are safe!” he admits and you sigh.

Carlos was someone you wanted in your corner, luckily the Spaniard was a mature enough man to put behind him everything that occured between the two of you and be there for you as a friend.

But you couldn’t help but feel the … distance between the both of you. And it was growing more and more each day. At the hotel, he saw you in a moment of completley vulnerability and it’s not often that Carlos Sainz has women crying infront of him, that arent fans of course. So hugging you, and holding you as you sniffled yourself to sleep felt like the right thing to do.

But it broke his heart knowing that nothing would come of it, as you’d made those wishes very clear all that time ago. Career focused lady … at one point in life Carlos thought that was something very attractive in a woman, he’d be lying if he said he didnt now but he couldn’t help but be slightly annoyed at the world and how you assume you’ll be viewed if you were to ever be involved with a driver.

But then you also both had the answer to how people would react from the state that your home was left in all because there were rumours between you and Lewis.

Once you too thought about the consequences of sharing a bed, you agreed as the last thing you wanted to do was force the friendship down a rocky path, one where your jobs are affected on track.

That was the last thing you wanted.

“Are you sure the floor is okay? I feel really bad” you frown as you sit on the edge of his bed, looking at where he is stood across the room.

“Yeah, i have stuff from when my sisters used to have sleepovers in here with me” he smiles in a nostalgic sort of way, thinking of when he was younger.

“You used to have sleepovers?” you ask cocking a brow,not having expected that from him. However you could tell that he was very much a family man.

“Lets go to sleep hermosa, we can dicuss my family life more tomorrow, but you need rest” he sighs, starting to lay down a thin single matress next to the bed. He grabbed blankets from the wooden closet and a pillow from the bed you’d be sleeping in.

“Sorry, no spares” he says before settling and laying down. He’d changed into some pijamas behind a little partition in his room. He gestured for you to take your turn.

You were desperate for a shower and to scrub off the entire Miami weekend. She wanted to bask under some warm water, but knew that wasnt a possibility at this time of night and in a shared house.

You changed into a large t-shirt before awkwardly shuffling back round to get into his bed.

Despite him not being there often the sheets still smelt like … him. His cologne or his body wash and it was an intoxicating smell that had you laying on your back staring at the ceiling questioning everything.

“Carlos?” You ask quietly to see if he was awake, but when there was no reply you figure he is probably asleep.

“Maybe in another reality you and I could be something more, I think one of my biggest regrets in life will be pushing you away that day and my biggest fear is loosing you as a person in my corner, however that may be. You’ve been kind to me in the short time you’ve known me and made me feel safe and protected when I’ve never felt more vulnerable. I just hope you know that I’m thankful for everything you’ve done and I wish I could let that part of myself open up to you” you sigh letting out everything you’d been thinking throughout the day.

That night you’d slept the most peacefully you had done in years. And you couldn’t help but feel thankful to Carlos.

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[demvalhaken]

Oc Art I guess

I’ve had this single oc since like 2022, and she’s always been a strong guy. I already have made a post about Zorn

This is it if you want to see it

I did kinda redesign her to make her design less cluttered and also a full body lol

If you didn’t know, she’s from Wrath in my universe. I don’t really have a complete and awesome backstory with her, just that she probably has middle class parents and grew up in the rural areas of the ring or the suburbs. I really need to fix all of the lore surrounding her and her friend group…

I said this in the last post but her full name is Zorn Alexander Mikester, ALSO I JUST REALISED I MISSPELLED HER LAST NAME UGH, okay I fixed it.

If ya’ll got any questions, I am more than happy to answer!!!

I gave her goat hooves because you know, Satan is a goat man and he rules over Wrath.

Alright, eat this up and be a menace to society, also I love you

[mogwai-movie-house]

The 50 Greatest Sequels of All Time

The finest follow-ups, ranked and rated high to low.

The Godfather Part II (1974) ★★★★★★★★★★

The Dark Knight (2008) ★★★★★★★★★★

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ★★★★★★★★★★

Aliens (1986) ★★★★★★★★★✰

Back to the Future Part III (1990) ★★★★★★★★★✰

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ★★★★★★★★★✰

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) ★★★★★★★★★✰

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ★★★★★★★★★✰

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ★★★★★★★★½✰

Hannibal (2001) ★★★★★★★★½✰

Road to Utopia (1945) ★★★★★★★★½✰

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ★★★★★★★★½✰

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Manon of the Spring (1986) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Addams Family Values (1993) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Deadpool 2 (2018) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Superman II (1980) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Toy Story 3 (2010) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Monsters University (2013) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Shrek 2 (2004) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

X-Men 2 (2003) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) ★★★★★★★★✰✰

The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) ★★★★★★★½✰✰

Finding Dory (2016) ★★★★★★★½✰✰

Men in Black³ (2012) ★★★★★★★½✰✰

Three Colors: Red (1994) ★★★★★★★½✰✰

Batman Returns (1992) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Psycho II (1983) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

A Shot in the Dark (1964) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Spider-Man 2 (2004) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Color of Money (1986) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Incredible Hulk (2008) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

The Enforcer (1976) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

Attack of the Clones (2002) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

After the Thin Man (1936) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

[ufonaut]

What are your favorite JSA designs ?

that's a very broad question given that you didn't specify which incarnation of the jsa but i'll go with a random assortment of some of my favorite members from all over :)

alan scott

there's just no beating paul reinman as far as i'm concerned! a couple designs have come close (paul smith in the golden age 1993 and eduardo barreto in all-american comics 1999 as well as mikel janin's current work on justice society of america 2022 all come to mind) but mr reinman had it all figured out all the way back in comic cavalcade 1942. the ideal alan is old hollywood handsome and just about the biggest guy in the room at all times but with rounded edges too, the kinda physique born out of physical work during his years on the railroad and later maintained by the starheart. james robinson certainly isn't wrong when he says "no one else's that tall" in tga '93 #2!

jay garrick

in contrast to alan, jay's gotta be all thin and lanky (and relatively short although he doesn't quite look it) and john byrne's the man for the job through his jsa arc in wonder woman 1987 #130-133. diego olortegui's work on jay garrick: the flash 2023 is also entirely ideal to me -- that's the jay i know and love!

jonathan law

the fantastic tarantula costume from all-star squadron is already a redesign of his original 1940s costume (which was a bit too kirby-era sandman for everybody's taste) but the gunfighter-esque look paul smith gave him in the golden age 1993 is beyond anything. so good it's unreal.

rex tyler

peter snejbjerg's hourman. perfection. something wildly deeply charming to me about the clean lines and the manic energy of his three-issue appearance in starman 1994 #77-79, perfectly in character for my ol' pal rexy. there's plenty of great hourmen out there, this one's mine :)

ted knight

it's not even worth pretending anyone has ever topped emil gershwin's work on starman or ever will. my god, it's extraordinary. it's something else entirely. emil's brief run on adventure comics 1938 was utter perfection, and that's saying something considering he followed jack burnley whose work on ted was already gorgeous!

johnny quick

mort meskin's sense of motion, his lithe lean playful impossibly dynamic johnny quick... that's the stuff of legends. it doesn't get better than meskin on more fun comics 1936, and the classics are classics for a reason.

jim corrigan

i mean, jim aparo's hard boiled detective throughout wrath of the spectre 1988. what else is there to say!

[kawaiinekoj]

requested | josh hartnett.

❀ edits by kawaiinekoj (instagram) / gallery

credits: josh hartnett for mr porter's the journal 2021 by ben weller, stills from trap (2024), the fear index (2022), wrath of man (2021) and die hart (2023) — textures by kawaiinekoj, raul illarramendi, europeana.

[anatomicaltheater]

hiiii thanks for rbing my horror recs post! here's your recs! <3

based on suspiria 1977 and house 1977 i'd recommend you movies not necessarily based on themes but on their beautifully haunting visuals that they really commit to, like alucarda (1977), the house of the devil (2009), the living dead girl (1982), let's scare jessica to death (1971), the love witch (2016), the wicker man (1973), the witch (2015) and the cabinet of dr. caligari (1920).

based on the shining i'd recommend you the lodge (2019), the others (2001), the orphanage (2007), the conjuring (2013), rosemary's baby (1968), his house (2020) and the dark and the wicked (2020) because they're all isolated family centred horror with haunting atmospheres.

based on pearl i'd recommend you possessor (2020), bones and all (2022), you're next (2011), evil dead (2013), black swan (2010), saint maud (2019), the descent (2005), may (2002) and the blackcoat's daughter (2015) which are some of my fav gory and/or atmospheric horrors about women who kill.

based on lisa frankenstein i'd recommend you the craft (1996), ready or not (2019), all cheerleaders die (2013), elvira, mistress of the dark (1988), death becomes her (1992), jennifer's body (2009), becky (2020) & the wrath of becky (2023), abigail (2024), ginger snaps (2000), and bodies bodies bodies (2022) which are some of my fav fun/campy horrors about women who kill.

hope there's some you haven't seen yet! :)

OMG THIS IS SO THOROUGH THANK YOUUUUU im gonna go add the ones i havent seen to my watchlist rn💖💖💖💖

[flickys-courage-club]

If my CTCD OCs have headcanon voices(or what would they sound like)

Olive - Mammon (Helluva Boss) [VA - Michael Cusack]

Felix - Lisa Loud (Loud House) [VA - Lara Jill Miller]

Justin - Mater (Cars) [VA - Larry the Cable Guy]

Clive - Joe Swanson (Family Guy) [VA - Patrick Warburton]

Nathan - Moxxie (Helluva Boss) [VA - Richard Horvitz]

Teresa - Pearl (Steven Universe) [VA - Deedee Magno]

Barry - Edd/Double D (Ed, Edd n Eddy) [VA - Samuel Khouth] or Lani-Loli (Crash Bandicoot) [VA - Richard Horvitz]

Grinz - Toko Fukawa/Genocide Jack (Danganronpa games) [VA - Amanda Celine Miller]

Frownz - Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa games) [VA - Jason Wishnov]

Sirius - Dr Facilier (Princess and The Frog) [VA - Keith David]

Petal - Onion Cookie (CRK) [VA - LilyPichu]

Alan - Warp Darkmatter (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command) [VA - Diedrich Brader]

Jacob - NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command) [VA - Craig Ferguson]

Lauren - Eda Clawthorne (Owl House) [VA - Wendie Malick] or Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel) [VA - Daphne Rubin-Vega]

Oliver - Andrealphus (Helluva Boss) [VA - Jason LeShea]

Matt - Jafar (Aladdin) [VA - Jonathan Freeman]

Lucifer/Puppeteer of Terrors - Joker (DC) [VA - Mark Hamill]

Fear King - Zestial (Hazbin Hotel) [VA - James Monroe Iglehart] or Asmodeus (Helluva Boss) [VA - James Monroe Iglehart]

Sin Clowns(Pride and Lust) - Blitzø (Helluva Boss) [VA - Brandon Rogers]

Sin Clown(Wrath) - Captain Gantu (Lilo and Stitch) [VA - Kevin Michael Richardson] or Shan Yu (Mulan) [VA - Miguel Ferrer]

Sin Clown(Greed) - Coachman (Pinocchio(1940s) [VA - Charles Judel]

Sin Clown(Envy) - Chris McLean (Total Drama) [VA - Christian Potenza]

Sin Clown(Glutton) - Verosika Mayday (Helluva Boss) [VA - Cristina Vee]

Sin Clown(Sloth) - Glitz and Glam (Helluva Boss) [VAs - Faye Mata]

Wendell - Lil Lightning (101 Dalmatians: Patch's London Adventure) [VA - Jason Alexander]

Toxin - Scarface (BTAS) [VA - George Costanza] or Crimson (Helluva Boss) [VA - Richard Horvitz]

Bon - Rosie (Hazbin Hotel) [VA - Leslie Kritzer]

Damien - Grigori Olyat (Henry Stickmin) [VA - PuffballsUnited]

Smiler - Harley Quinn (DC) [VA - Arleen Sorkin]

Snowflake - Adorabat (Mao Mao: HOPH) [VA - Lika Leong]

Malcolm - Demoman (TF2) [VA - Gary Schwartz] or Groundskeeper Willie (Simpsons) [VA - Dan Castellaneta]

Damon - Vulture (Spectacular Spider Man) [VA - Robert Englund]

Chief Azrael - King Andrias (Amphibia) [VA - Keith David]

Geo - Collin (Helluva Boss) [VA - Jayden Libran]

Alicia - Harley Quinn (DC) [VA - Hynden Walch]

Bunitty - Nifty (Hazbin Hotel) [VA - Kimiko Glenn]

Claude - Honest John (Pinocchio - 2022) [VA - Keegan Michael Key]

Krimson - Emperor Belos (Owl House) [VA - Matthew Rhys]

Radley - Morty (Rick and Morty) [VA - Justin Rolland/Harry Balden]

Maria - Nasira (Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge)

[mariacallous]

Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything pertaining to the act of moviegoing. Lines around the block, overly excited nerds, an appetite for action figures. Star Wars taught Hollywood that certain genres—sci-fi, fantasy, anything that percolated in the offbeat TV shows, books, and comics of the 1950s and ’60s—had fans, and those fandoms would show up. Star Wars made a meager $1.6 million in the US in its opening weekend. But people kept coming back, and by the end of its initial run it had made more than $300 million. Hollywood’s Next Big Thing had arrived.

Common wisdom dictates that Jaws, which came out in 1975 and made some $260 million, was the first summer blockbuster. That’s true, but it was Star Wars that shifted the idea of what kind of film future popcorn flicks tried to be. In the years after its release, a trove of sci-fi and genre films landed in theaters: Blade Runner, Alien, E.T., the Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior. By the ’90s, the summer movie energy had shifted to action fare—Twister, Speed, Jurassic Park, Independence Day—but nerd stuff still ruled. For every Forrest Gump there was a Batman Returns or Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Then came a little juggernaut called Marvel. By the time Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies started clearing nine-figure opening weekends in the aughts, it was obvious that comic book heroes’ true superpowers involved making your money disappear. The Avengers opened in early May 2012 and nearly recouped its $200-million-plus production budget in three days. Suddenly, there were at least two superhero movies every year, if not every summer, and some new Star Wars flicks at the holidays.

The one-two punch of Covid-19 theater closures and streaming pretty much kneecapped this entire process. The summer of 2020 had virtually no blockbusters, and by the time moviegoers returned to multiplexes in 2021 and 2022, there had been a vibe shift. Movies like Black Widow and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness did well, but they weren’t events. Rushing to Fandango for tickets didn’t feel as urgent as it once did. Last summer, Barbenheimer was the buzziest thing in movies. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 made money, but they still got beat by Barbie’s might.

Overall, this year could be a wake-up call for studios that superhero fatigue has fully set in, says Chris Nashawaty, author of The Future Was Now, a new book out in July about how the movies of 1982—Blade Runner, E.T., Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, among others—ushered in the current blockbuster era. That epoch, he says, “was always going to be something that couldn’t last forever; I’m frankly surprised that it lasted as long as it did.”

Nashawaty says the success of Barbenheimer—both movies—indicates that audiences are hungry for smart films, but Hollywood’s risk aversion likely means studios will greenlight more projects based on toys and games like Monopoly rather than movies about physicists. “This is a real existential moment in Hollywood right now,” he adds, and studios need to be bold to stay relevant.

Summer 2024, which unofficially begins this weekend, promises a move away from the formula that has been in play for decades. There are only a handful of big popcorn-ready movies coming, and they’re decidedly less family-friendly than the blockbusters of yore. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which dropped on Friday, is a teeth-chatteringly gritty prequel about a kidnapped woman (Anya Taylor-Joy playing the younger version of Charlize Theron’s character from Mad Max: Fury Road) who ends up in a war between two overlords and has to fight her way out. Deadpool & Wolverine is a Marvel movie, yes, but it’s apparently a paean to pegging and cocaine so hard-R that Ryan Reynolds won’t shut up about it.

The series of weird indies coming in the next few months—the thriller Cuckoo, Ti West’s latest horror flick MaXXXine, a new collab from Poor Things pals Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos called Kinds of Kindness—finally have some room to get into the summer movie conversation.

Make no mistake: I am typing these things with glee and admiration. Glossy family movies have their place, but they’ve grown awfully predictable. Safe—not necessarily in their plots, but in their substance. No matter how fun last year’s barn-burner The Super Mario Bros. Movie was, you can’t say anything about it was surprising, much less new. No one walked into the theater for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and walked out as gobsmacked as they were when they saw Star Wars, or even Speed.

This is not a “Hollywood is so homogenized” argument. Rather, it’s a reminder that Tinseltown wasn’t always this way. Its influence used to introduce people to the future. What’s happening now has the potential to mark a return to the kind of startlingly original movies that used to be hits. Between the pandemic, streaming, and the Hollywood strikes of last summer, a lot of old habits got broken, and there’s a sense that a renaissance is afoot.

This revitalization won’t come easy, if it comes at all. Summer 2024 still has its share of redos and sequels—a new Inside Out movie, reboots of ’90s summer staples The Crow and Twister. (The latter is the aptly-named Twisters; there are more tornadoes this time, apparently.) But even those movies at least feel like they’re grasping for the prefranchise days, even if they’re birthing franchises in the process.

Furiosa is currently projected to bring in more than $40 million at the US box office this weekend, a figure that would bring it close to Fury Road’s tally but may not convince Hollywood execs that it should bankroll more R-rated, original shockbusters. It would, presumably, best The Garfield Movie, which is also out this weekend and has the makings of a more surefire hit: well-known IP, animated, PG-rated. (For the record, though: Critics seem to think it sucks.) Early ticket sales for Deadpool & Wolverine are already breaking records for an R-rated movie. Should it dominate the conversation for a couple weeks while also raking in money, that embrace of a very not-Disney Disney movie—coupled with Furiosa and Hot Barbenheimer Summer—could signal a tipping point.

Look, nothing will ever completely derail Hollywood’s reliance on sure things. Video game adaptations remain poised to take the crown long held by superhero flicks. (Borderlands, starring Cate Blanchett, is coming to theaters this August.) But if this summer’s ever-sprawling slate turns up just enough weird hits, maybe we’ll once again know the feeling of walking out of Star Wars for the first time.

[object-obsession]

| Combined post #2 | Low-budget horror movies featuring sentient objects as killers

Inanimate Object Characters List | Entry: 41

I have seen none of these and I never will.

This is a bunch of randomness, but as trash as these movies may or may not be (just kidding, ain't no way they are good), they must be included. Otherwise, I would not be able to honestly finish this list.

By the way, the images are gonna be small with these ones.

Movie: Killdozer (1974) | Object: bulldozer

I'm not sure if I had even heard of this movie until today.

Movie: Death Bed: The Bed that Eats (1977) | Object: bed

Look at that title. I'm sure this one is already as bad as it sounds...

Movie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) | Object: tomatoes

I think this would work better as an animation like the cover, but in reality, it's a low-budget live-action movie.

Movie: Ferat Vampire (1982) | Object: car

It's a Czech movie. And I had definitely never heard of it until today.

Movie: Blades (1988) | Object: lawn mower

Apparently a parody of "Jaws"... I have no idea either, man.

Movie: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989) | Object: lamp

This movie revolves around a demonic lamp or whatever.

Movie: Battle Heater (1989) | Object: heater

It's a Japanese movie. Also looking ⁿᵒᵗ ˢᵒ promising, am I right?

Movie: I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) | Object: motor cycle

Are the vampire motorcycle and vampire car from Ferat Vampire related to each other...?

Movie: Amityville: It's About Time (1992) | Object: clock

Who thought it was a good idea to make more Amityville movies?

Movie: Amityville: A New Generation (1993) | Object: mirror

I... I give up...

Movie: The Mangler (1995), The Mangler 2 (2002), The Mangler Reborn (2005) | Object: laundry press

I saw the ending... It enough for me to decide not to watch it. Only today, I found out it has a two sequels. How?! And why?!

Movie: Killer Condom (1996) | Object: condom

Do I even have to say anything...?

Movie: Deathbed (2002) | Object: bed

No more bed horror movies, please.

Movie: The Red Shoes (2005) | Object: a pair of high heels

It's a Korean movie.

Movie: The Wig (2005) | Object: wig

It's a Korean movie... again.

Movie: Evil Bong (2006), Evil Bong 2: King Bong (2009), Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong (2011) | Object: bong

And there is a WHOLE FIESTA of Evil Bong sequels. THERE'S 10 FRICKING MOVIES. Indeed, these three are not even all of them.

Movie: Road Train/Road Kill (2010) | Object: road train

No, it's not a train, it's a kind of semi-truck, apparently.

Movie: Killer Piñata (2015) | Object: piñata

Its design is pretty funny, honestly - but the movie's rating is not.

Movie: The Sand (2015) | Object: beach

Movie: Attack of the Killer Donuts (2016) | Object: donuts

The fact that they made this not even so long ago is embarrassing.

Movie: Bed of the Dead/The Dwelling (2016) | Object: bed

GUYS. JUST STOP THE BED MOVIES.

Movie: The Car: Road to Revenge (2019) | Object: car

Walmart Christine, I suppose.

Movie: The Drone (2019) | Object: drone

Killer drone goes brrrrrr. *someone's neck falls off

Movie: Bad Hair (2020) | Object: wig

Some concepts just somehow keep on returning, despite yielding bad results (almost) every single time. Like cars, refrigerators, beds and (most surprisingly, in my opinion) hair.

Movie: The Killing Tree (2022) | Object: Christmas tree

The rating is so bad, that giving it a try is too risky. And that title is foretelling as well. I don't trust such a title to be of a good movie.

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✨ 36 movies FINALLY COVERED ✨

This undoubtedly will be the longest post. If people in the future decide to make more low-rating sentient object horror movies, I'll be sure to add them to this list if I come across them. If I don't and you noticed their existence, LEMME KNOW (please).

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Okay, so I also have come across a bunch of short films revolving around sentient objects, but this list is long enough as it is right now already. So if you are curious, I'll just leave the link down here and you can check out the IMDb list I found yourself:

Inanimate Objects Horror (imdb.com)

I'm a tiny bit annoyed, because it took me a whole while to compile this list, but only after I found most of the titles myself already, I found this list. But oh well, at least some titles I have been able to add because of that list. And there are some titles here that didn't appear in that list, so in the end, some of my work was still useful.

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Lastly, quick mention of Annabelle and Chucky, because even though they are technically objects, they resemble humans and aren't eligible for this list. However, the characters are quite popular among some horror lovers, so hence this shout-out.

[honeyblockm]

The Death Poem, Part Four: Legacy

Masterpost | Part One: L'Manberg | Part Two: New L'Manberg | Part Three: Empowerment

Text:

11/28/2021: Ranboo is cut down escaping

Some things I love. Some things I love more 

than that. Some things keep me sitting in this cell. Some things 

I stay on my solitary perch rising out of 

the water for.  Some things pull this sheet tight over my head, over the open viscera.

Some things shred the muslin. 

Some things leave ghosts. Some things leave me 

waiting out here. Some things watch the snow 

knit its heavy blankets over all of the roofs and windowsills and 

the rims of the flowerpots of frozen soil and still my hands 

slip through like vapor when I try to brush it off. I am still here. Have I not always

been every piece of me emerging from the bisected half, impossible

to look in the eye? There are still things left inside, bundled in cloth,

for you to take home. There are still things worth

mourning. I am still half a husband yet.

2/4/2022: Awesamdude dies in Pandora’s Vault

I am exceptional at waiting. down under this ticking absence of clocks and water gone still I sit and stare and count the cracks of obsidian shedding its dim tears not for me and not for this growing lack inside my gut staved off by the disappearing muscle of my forearms and how no one is coming for me but him. ambivalent to which one of us looks at the other afraid and angry because in the black belly of our collective wanting both of us have come back home for no one else has ever thought to live here and no one else has learned to count the ticking towards nothing. but for you. nothing is ever too good to be true except for everything as I know only absolutes and the ultimate one is if either of us thought we’d let the other would walk out of here or die then I may as well have built you a cobblestone box instead.

3/20/2022: Tubbo punches Aimsey off the Prime Path

ALL THE DEAD PEOPLE THAT YOU LOVED ARE SHOWING THEIR AWFUL FACES TODAY

their mouths are forming consonant and vowels forgetting they are vacuums 

and they are asking if it's safe enough yet 

it's never safe enough 

for both our sakes 

I hope it never will be 

5/22/2022: Fundy jumps into the L’Mancrater

It was effortless.

Did I expect that? The fluid grace of my exit, 

the speed, simple execution

of it all? I used to wonder and still

do but now that I’ve tasted air I think

I know the ease by which you 

left. One of life's many questions that

I never stop asking and now you

are finally answering.

In terms of going, this we know it to

be faster than walking; faster than rowboats 

or waiting or letting your feet carry 

you down the treacherous steps from a stiff ledge to 

who is waiting at the bottom

craning their neck against 

the day’s unflinching

8/10/2022: Connor seeks out the wrath of God

Death is the late morning; 

a languid prank. I blinked, and 

I was there. Not much to it. 

Nothing killed me, only God 

waving a hand; a break 

in the lazy breeze. 

Through the window, 

light bent. Voices, lamb cries, 

but it no longer mattered 

to me. 

9/10/2022: Quackity and Purpled take a dive off the top floor

like everything here flight is only metaphor 

for falling; these futile wings, this blooming sky;

if you could remake yourself a better man; what

would you do?; Most people make themselves kind but

that I was; before; my plans lay thus; First I grew pointed teeth, then; 

harder eyes; Failing those I built a city; measuring; how much heart

makes me a target; how much more makes me

good again; which here we can also call untouchable or

maybe; safe; once again I am wrong; I sport canines only 

to be torn out; citizens only to die; skyscrapers only for pushing

off.

10/29/2022: The Egg hosts a party

[Originally the lines are spaced to form half an ellipse, a shape you cannot do on Tumblr given the constraints of the post.]

Here again because life 

is a circle, 

after all and

there is no perfection 

without reconciliation 

and if you thought you could 

stick your hand to the 

wall and follow it out 

well 

it doesn't get much better than this

I am retribution, hunger, 

lovely misery on a dinner plate 

maggots pouring from 

the carcass like pearl strings 

no distinction made on either flank

the end of all things is the embryo 

the beginning the bird 

between them is the egg hatching 

11/11/2022: Tubbo kills Dream

Everything between our first meeting

to now:

I have lost even the snow on my fence posts

I will not lose you too. 

11/13/2022: Jack sets off a nuke

death came calling

today

it carried with it baskets, wicker

its soft feet spilled sand down the dunes

its eyes sparkled like two suns

and there was light

[moviebracket]

One group of polls will go up each day and polls will be a week long! Submissions will remain open through the end of the first round, and I'll add some more first round groups depending on submission numbers! Apologies for the brief absence, I had some personal stuff going on.

Movies that lose by smaller margins may have a chance to return to the bracket at the end of Round 1.

Round 1 Group A

Lilo & Stitch (78%) vs Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (22%)

Pan's Labyrinth (53%) vs Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (47%)

Legally Blonde (96%) vs The Last Temptation of Christ (4%)

Brother Bear (59%) vs Kubo and the Two Strings (41%)

Round 1 Group B

Stardust (47%) vs Heathers (53%)

The Batman (2022) (47%) vs Moulin Rouge! (53%)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (58%) vs Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (42%)

Now You See Me (78%) vs Morbius (22%)

Round 1 Group C

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (29%) vs The Prince of Egypt (71%)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (32%) vs The Princess Bride (68%)

Rogue One (33%) vs Spirited Away (67%)

Goncharov (90%) vs Love Actually (10%)

Round 1 Group D

A Silent Voice (38%) vs Princess Mononoke (62%)

How to Train Your Dragon (65%) vs The Sound of Music (35%)

Knives Out (43%) vs Howl's Moving Castle (57%)

Little Miss Sunshine (42%) vs The Little Mermaid (1989) (58%)

Round 1 Group E

A Quiet Place (45%) vs Zombieland (55%)

10 Things I Hate About You (72%) vs Lemonade Mouth (28%)

Juno (21%) vs The Addams Family (1991) (79%)

The Parent Trap (1998) (54%) vs Bend It Like Beckham (46%)

Round 1 Goup F

Rent (48%) vs West Side Story (2021) (52%)

Elf (39%) vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (61%)

Hairspray (2007) (43%) vs Mamma Mia! (57%)

Clueless (51%) vs Miss Congeniality (49%)

Round 1 Group G

Forrest Gump (50%) vs Kingsman: The Secret Service (50%)

Enchanted (69%) vs Ferris Bueller's Day Off (31%)

Battle Royale (45%) vs High School Musical (55%)

Matilda (1996) (60%) vs Chicago (40%)

Round 1 Group H

Mean Girls (54%) vs School of Rock (46%)

The Hitman's Bodyguard (25%) vs Grease (75%)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (51%) vs Parasite (49%)

The Wizard of Oz (46%) vs Star Wars: A New Hope (54%)

Round 1 Group I

Populaire (13%) vs Labyrinth (87%)

Matilda (2022) (17%) vs Kung Fu Panda (83%)

Superman (1978) (44%) vs The Sixth Sense (56%)

The Martian (65%) vs Trainspotting (35%)

Round 1 Group J

Dune (37%) vs Back to the Future (63%)

Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (44%) vs The Return of the King (56%)

Home Alone (63%) vs Frozen (37%)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (59%) vs Meet the Robinsons (41%)

Round 1 Group K

Crazy Rich Asians (68%) vs The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (32%)

Alien (75%) vs Mulholland Drive (25%)

The Imitation Game (39%) vs The Simpsons Movie (61%)

Castle of Cagliostro (59%) vs Once Upon a Time in the West (41%)

Round 1 Group L

North by Northwest (22%) vs Arrietty (78%)

Scream (53%) vs War and Peace (1966/1967) (47%)

Arrival (18%) vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show (82%)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (55%) vs Night at the Museum (45%)

Round 1 Group M

Steven Universe: The Movie vs Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Everything Everywhere All at Once vs Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Rise of the Guardians vs She's the Man

Pacific Rim vs Treasure Planet (2002)

Round 1 Group N

Deadpool vs Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Pitch Perfect vs Get Out

The Perks of Being a Wallflower vs Mad Max: Fury Road

Inception vs The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Round 1 Group O

The Princess Diaries vs Paddington

Pride vs Velvet Goldmine

Shrek 2 vs The Devil Wears Prada

Saw vs But I'm a Cheerleader

Round 1 Group P

Evil Dead 2 vs Nope

Whip It vs I Love You Phillip Morris

Jennifer's Body vs Ginger Snaps

Bodies Bodies Bodies vs The Social Network

Round 1 Group Q

The Mummy (1999) vs The Silence of the Lambs

Fight Club vs The History of Future Folk

Cyrano vs Beetlejuice

Die Hard vs While You Were Sleeping

Round 1 Group R

Cocaine Bear vs Boy Meets Girl

Clue vs Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Coco vs Wendell & Wild

The Lost Boys vs Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

[kokehitsugi]

me fucking crumpling on the phone with Cat struggling to buy myself a tenacious d tshirt while still managing to rock myself back and forth to whatever fucking drum and bass set i had playing really was something else

if im not better by saturday someone is going to feel my wrath also did you know if you buy a tenacious d tshirt they give you the 2023 tour tshirt for free…lifehack…

i hate being sick mostly because all my art turns out like garbaaaage even though i have tons of ideas ( i got all these ideas man ) its like my hands dont work right ( i also havent been “sick” sick like this since like 2022 so maybe im also just being dramatic )

ok im going to pass out again

[kaylaandstitch]

i think it's nice we share the same sky

(wrote a short story from this quote i love this movie too much)

From Aftersun (2022), Dir. by Charlotte Wells:

“I think it’s nice we share the same sky. Sometimes, at play time, I look up at the sky and if I can see the Sun then.. I think about the fact that we can both see the Sun, so even though we’re not actually in the same place and we’re not actually together… we kind of are in a way, you know? Like we’re both underneath the same sky, so… kind of together.”

We’re 11 and 33, sitting underneath the glowing peach pit hanging over the orange waves. My small body is sticky from when you slathered sunscreen on me-- the Australian kind that you constantly assured was SPF 40, the best of the kind-- and sand filling between the grooves of our small body. We were small back then, even if you were big and could carry me on your shoulders. Small in different ways that you felt and I couldn’t understand.

As I lay on the wet ground, cold waves lapping and enveloping my body, I felt serene in a way I had never before. I looked up at the sky, straight up enough that I didn’t get the glare and the squint. I never looked at the sun directly because you told me that my eyes would never recover, and I believed it. I could hear sniffling beside me, and I asked if you were okay. You told me you had a cold from the monsoon winds. I wrapped my striped towel around you. You said thanks, and my small hands grazed your stubble and clung onto your lukewarm body as we watched the sun set down below and into the twilight zone. 

I think it’s nice we share the same sky. The last time we were boundless and under it together-together, is a moment forever enshrined in gold and a moment that I’ll cherish forever until I die. You sat there next to me as the charming thinking-man that would pretend to be a statue as I giggled at your mime abilities, the moving castle with the vines that I climbed on top of to see the world, hoisted upon your strong shoulders, and the one I would and will always have a twirl with. That was the person I knew. But how do I reconcile this dream man I knew with the man I didn’t?

I was definitely young then. Young enough to not know what was happening, but old enough to notice there was something off. But then again, this was my normal. Your mood swings were enough to throw anyone off kilter, but I didn’t think anything of it. I just failed to recognize that this exact moment drenched in this nostalgic glow was a turning point for you. I never saw you again. I wish I had wiped away your tears that I had mistaken for saltwater and you blamed on the wind and had a long, good look at your face before I parted ways with my dad. You.

The pain that I felt was so unfathomable for years that I grew bitter. Bitter at how you left me. So I shut you out. You were in every cloud whenever I looked at the blue, pink, gray, orange sky, so much so that I stopped looking at it. I looked at the sun directly to simply avoid being reminded that we’re not under the same sky anymore. I erased every grainy recollection of us at the beach. Up until I had your grandson, I never knew just how challenging it is to shield someone so unknowing and innocent from the wrath of issues that come with parenting. You go through life enough to see everything and instead of regurgitating it out, you hide yourself around everything you gather under the carpet.

Now, I’m 33, the same age you were when you left. It doesn’t fade with time. You still live in my daydreams and during my night. But today, as I’m sitting on the same beach we were at when you were my age then and now, I look up at the sky. I’m with her and I’m with him, and I look up at the same tangerine hue burned into my scleras the last time I was here. I let your calm and your care wash over me as worries churn at the back of my mind, perhaps the same you had when you were a young parent yourself. I allow myself to dive deep into my memories, rummaging through the adult, college, high school, the ones you didn’t get to see me graduate from or party hard through, and I finally grab on to your shirt and we dance. We dance through from my 5th birthday party, we sneak a peek at the scene of you wiping my cheeks as I scrape my knee when I was 7, and we arrive at me wiping away your tears during that fateful golden hour. I never knew you well enough to tell you that life was going to go swimmingly and question your monsoon wind cold, but I know now that you tried your best. You didn’t leave because you didn’t see responsibility in your life, but it was a last resort for you. You’ll never know how upset that will repeatedly make me feel. I hope you knew during your lifetime that you were loved by every room you walked into, your bright mind and your mellow attitude made people feel like you truly listened. It bothers me daily like an itch I can’t reach to scratch and a concept I can’t wrap my head around how much you didn’t realize you lit up my world. I loved and love you irrevocably. You were the best dad anyone could ever have, even if I was cursed with only having you for a short time of 11 trips around the sun. 

I’m sitting here barefoot with my baby wrapped around a threadbare towel worn down over the years, the very same I had wrapped you around when I was 11. We’re watching the aftersun, and I close my eyes. The saddest yet most beautiful scene comes on-- your gorgeous chuckle emanating from behind, I grab your arm and we jump into the sea together, braving the coldness. We wade farther and farther away together, hand in hand, and we swim off into the sunset.