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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
"Wes. Wes! How can we stop him?"
"I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie."
#Wes Craven's New Nightmare#Freddython#A Nightmare on Elm Street 7#slasher film#Horror imagery#Wes Craven#Heather Langenkamp#Miko Hughes#David Newsom#Tracy Middendorf#Robert Englund#Sam Rubin#Marianne Maddalena#Tuesday Knight#John Saxon#Fran Bennett#Tamara Mark#Tina Vail#J. Peter Robinson#belatedly finishing up my freddython so i can get started on the Jasoniad (and presumably be very disappointed by their eventual melding in#freddy vs jason). not sure why i put this off for so long actually‚ bc it's kind of everything i was looking for in a later Elm Street#sequel (and everything the previous couple of films weren't): an original idea‚ a new take on the mythos. a year or so before Scream‚ Wes#dips his toe in meta narrative by making a film about making a new Freddy film; cue lots of fun appearances by actors playing themselves#including Langenkamp giving quite possibly her best performance in the series. this is much more than knowing winks tho; it also goes back#to basics‚ keeping Freddy largely offscreen until the final showdown‚ building up tension through a series of unsettling fake outs and#misdirections. Englund has a lot of fun playing Englund‚ and I actually like the redesigned Freddy (tho it appears to be a source of#controversy in many of the reviews i read on letterboxd). a very fun and fitting way to end the series (kind of) (obviously he came back)#and oh what i wouldn't give to be beautiful widow Langenkamp‚ comforted by the strong arms of John Saxon
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So I am dealing with jazz fusion in all these talks on what jazz actually is? Well, I should discuss Brand X as well in that case. What do you know, I intend to, since they are in a way another supergroup of the genre, though they are also familiar to those who are aware of Phil Collins' career, since he drummed on a couple of their albums. However, the group does occasionally feel like a generic jazz fusion outfit, but when they manage to combine the forces of all the members, they become quite unstoppable. Of course, this is what happens to the most bands of the brand, i.e. one of their characteristics is their lack of stability, they seem to hover on the edge of either falling apart or losing their sanity. I jest, though there is always a semblance of truth in jokes.
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If the actors themselves ship their characters, who am I to argue? Headcannon accepted!
It has been confirmed that every single one of these gentlemen sail their ships!!! And bless them all for it 🥰⭐️♥️
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gray-doestheart · 2 months
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Fuck it. Hits my OCs with the animal crossing Ray
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badmovieihave · 11 months
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Bad movie I have Dexter: The Fifth Season 2010
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Here's today's CD 💿 Playlist...
Empire by Queensrÿche (1991)
Mixed Up by The Cure (1990)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare Motion Picture Soundtrack by J. Peter Robinson (1994)
CMJ New Music September 1998
#Queensryche #empire #TheCure #mixedup #jpeterrobinson #wescravensnewnightmare #anightmareonelmstreet #cmj #cmjnewmusic #cmjnewmusicseptember1998 #90s #cd
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The conservative movement is cracking up
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I'll be in Stratford, Ontario, appearing onstage with Vass Bednar as part of the CBC IDEAS Festival. I'm also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library.
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Politics always requires coalitions. In parliamentary democracies, the coalitions are visible, when they come together to form the government. In a dictatorship, the coalitions are hidden to everyone except infighting princelings and courtiers (until a general or minister is executed, exiled or thrown in prison.)
In a two-party system, the coalitions are inside the parties – not quite as explicit as the coalition governments in a multiparty parliament, but not so opaque as the factions in a dictatorship. Sometimes, there are even explicit structures to formalize the coalition, like the Biden Administration's Unity Task Force, which parceled out key appointments among two important blocs within the party (the finance wing and the Sanders/Warren wing).
Conservative politics are also a coalition, of course. As an outsider, I confess that I am much less conversant with the internal power-struggles in the GOP and the conservative movement, though I'm trying to remedy that. Books like Nathan J Robinson's Responding to the Right present a great overview of various conservative belief-systems:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/14/nathan-robinson/#arguendo
And the Know Your Enemy podcast does an amazing job of diving deep into right-wing beliefs, especially when it comes to identifying fracture lines in the conservative establishment. A recent episode on the roots of contemporary right-wing antisemitism in the paleocon/neocon split was hugely informative and fascinating:
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-in-search-of-anti-semitism-with-john-ganz/
Political parties are weak institutions, liable to capture and hospitable to corruption. General elections aren't foolproof or impervious to fraud, but they're miles more robust than parties, whose own leadership selection processes and other key decisions can be made in the shadows, according to rules that can be changed on a whim:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/
Which means that parties are brittle, weak vessels that we rely on to contain the volatile mixture of factions who might actually hate each other, sometimes even more than they hate the other party. Remember the defenestration of GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy? That:
https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555
Even outsiders like me know that there's a deep fracture in the Republican Party, with Trumpists on one side and the "establishment" on the other side. Reading accounts of the 2016 GOP leadership race, I get the distinct impression that Trump's win was even more shocking to party insiders than it was to the rest of us.
Which makes sense. They thought they had the party under control, knew where its levers were and how to pull them. For us, Trump's win was a terrible mystery. For GOP power-brokers, it was a different kind of a nightmare, the kind where you discover that controls to the the car you're driving in high-speed traffic aren't connected to anything and you're not really the driver.
But as Trump's backers – another coalition – fall out among each other, it's becoming easier for the rest of us to understand what happened. Take FBI informant Peter Thiel's defection from the Trump camp:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/12/silicon-valley-billionaire-donors-presidential-candidates/
Thiel was the judas goat who led tech's reactionary billionaires into Trump's tent, blazing a trail and raising a fortune on the way. Thiel's support for Trump was superficially surprising. After all, Thiel is gay, and Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, openly swore war on queers of all kinds. Today, Thiel has rebuffed Trump's fundraising efforts and is reportedly on Trump's shit-list.
But as a Washington Post report – drawing heavily on gossiping anonymous insiders – explains. Thiel has never let homophobia blind him to the money and power he stands to gain by backing bigots:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/12/silicon-valley-billionaire-donors-presidential-candidates/
Thiel bankrolled Blake Masterson's Senate race, despite Masterson's promise to roll back marriage equality – and despite the fact that Masterton attended Thiel's wedding to another man.
According to the post, the Thiel faction's abandonment of Trump wasn't driven by culture war issues. Rather, they were fed up with Trump's chaotic, undisciplined governance strategy, which scuttled many opportunities to increase the wealth and power of America's oligarchs. Thiel insiders complained that Trump's "character traits sabotaged the policy changes" and decried Trump's habit of causing "turmoil and chaos…that would interfere with his agenda" rather than "executing relentlessly."
For Trump's base, the cruelty might be the point. But for his backers, the cruelty was the tactic, and the point was money, and the power it brings. When Trump seemed like he might use cruel tactics to achieve power, his backers went along for the ride. But when Trump made it clear that he would trade opportunities for power solely to indulge his cruelty, they bailed.
That's an important fracture line in the modern American conservative coalition, but it's not the only one.
Writing in the BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller and Lee Hepner describes the emerging conservative split over antitrust and monopoly:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-there-an-establishment-plan-to
Antitrust has been the centerpiece of the Biden Administration's most progressive political project. For the left wing of the Dems, blunting corporate power is seen as the necessary condition for rolling back the entire conservative program, which depends on oligarch-provided cash infusions, media campaigns, and thinktank respectability.
But elements of the right have also latched onto antitrust, for reasons of their own. Take the Catholic traditionalists who see weakening corporate power as a path to restoring a "traditional" household where a single breadwinner can support a family:
https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/when-capitalism-becomes-tyranny-with-sohrab-ahmari
There's another reason to support antitrust, of course – it's popular. There are large, bipartisan majorities opposed to monopoly and in favor of antitrust action:
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Antitrust_Policy_poll_results.pdf
Two-thirds of Americans support anti-monopoly laws. 70% of Americans say monopolies are bad for the economy. The Biden administration is doing more on antitrust than any presidency since the Carter years, but 52% of Americans haven't heard about it:
https://www.ft.com/content/c17c35a3-e030-4e3b-9f49-c6bdf7d3da7f
There's a big opportunity latent in the facts of antitrust's popularity, and the Biden antitrust agenda's obscurity. So far, the Biden administration hasn't figured out how to seize that opportunity, but some Dems are trying to grab it. Take Montana Senator John Tester, a Democrat in a Trump-voting state, whose campaign has taken aim at the meat-packing monopolies that are screwing the state's ranchers.
The right wants in on this. At a Federalist Society black-tie event last week during the National Lawyer's Convention, Biden's top antitrust enforcers got a warm welcome. Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ's top antitrust cop, was praised onstage by Todd Zywicki, whom Stoller and Hepner call "a highly influential law professors," from George Mason Univeristy, a fortress of pro-corporate law and economics. Zywicki praised the DoJ and FTC's new antitrust guidelines – which have been endlessly damned in the WSJ and other conservative outlets �� as a reasonable and necessary compromise:
https://fedsoc.org/events/national-press-club-event
Even Lina Khan – the bogeywoman of the WSJ editorial page – got a warm reception at her fireside chat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwdAxOSznE
And the convention's hot Saturday ticket was "a debate between two conservatives over whether social media platforms had sufficient monopoly power that the state could regulate them as common carriers":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwoO7bZajXk
This is pretty amazing. And yet…lawmakers haven't gotten the memo. During markup for last week's appropriations bill, lawmakers inserted a flurry of anti-antitrust amendments into the must-pass legislation:
https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/fsgg-approps-bill-must-support-enforcers-not-kneecap-them/#
These amendments were just wild. Rep Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) introduced an amendment that would give companies carte blanche to stick you with unlimited junk fees, and allow corporations to take away their workers' rights to change jobs through noncompetes:
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress/house-report/269
Another amendment would block the FTC from enforcing against "unfair methods of competition." Translation: the FTC couldn't punish companies like Amazon for using algorithms to hike prices, or for conspiring to raise insulin prices, or its predatory pricing aimed at killing small- and medium-sized grocers.
An amendment from Rep Kat Cammack (R-FL) would kill the FTC's "click to cancel" rule, which will force companies to let you cancel your subscriptions the same way you sign up for them – instead of making you wait on hold to beg a customer service rep to let you cancel.
Another one: "a provision to let auto dealers cheat customers with undisclosed added fees":
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr4664rh/pdf/BILLS-118hr4664rh.pdf
Dems got in on the action, too. A bipartisan pair, Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep Lou Correa (D-FL), unsuccessfully attempted to strip the Department of Transport of its powers to block mergers, which were most recently used to block the merger of Jetblue and Spirit:
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/house-amendment/640
And 206 Republicans voted to block the DoT from investigating airline price-gouging. As Stoller and Hepner point out, these reps serve constituents from low-population states that are especially vulnerable to this kind of extraction.
This morning, Jim Jordan hosted a Judiciary Committee meeting where he raked DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter over the coals, condemning the same merger guidelines that Zywicki praised to the Federalist Society:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7jxc8dp8erhe1q3wpndre/GOP-oversight-hearing-memo-11.13.23.pdf?rlkey=d54ur91ry3mc69bta5vhgg13z&dl=0
Jordan's prep memo reveals his plan to accuse Kanter of being an incompetent who keeps failing in his expensive bids to hold corporate power to account, and being an all-powerful government goon who's got a boot on the chest of American industry. Stoller and Hepner invoke the old Yiddish joke: "The food at this restaurant is terrible, and the portions are too small!"
Stoller and Hepner close by wondering what to make of this factional split in the American right. Is it that these members of the GOP Congressional caucus just haven't gotten the memo? Or is this a peek at what corporate lobbyists home to accomplish after the 2024 elections?
They suggest that both Democrats and Republican primary contesters in that race could do well by embracing antitrust, "Establishment Republicans want you to pay more for groceries, healthcare, and travel, and are perfectly fine letting monopoly corporations make decisions about your daily life."
I don't know if Republicans will take them up on it. The party's most important donors are pathologically loss-averse and unwilling to budge on even the smallest compromise. Even a faint whiff of state action against unlimited corporate power can provoke a blitz of frenzied scare-ads. In New York state, a proposal to ban noncompetes has triggered a seven-figure ad-buy from the state's Business Council:
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/noncompete-campaign-raises-state-lobbying-18442769.php
It's hard to overstate how unhinged these ads are. Writing for The American Prospect, Terri Gerstein describes one: "a hammer smashes first an alarm clock, then a light bulb, with shards of glass flying everywhere. An ominous voice predicts imminent doom. Then, for good measure, a second alarm clock is shattered":
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-10-business-groups-reflexive-anti-worker-demagogy/
Banning noncompetes is good for workers, but it's also unambiguously good for business and the economy. They "reduce new firm entry, innovation by startups, and the ability of new firms to grow." 44% of small business owners report having been blocked from starting a new company because of a noncompete; 35% have been blocked from hiring the right person for a vacancy due to a noncompete. :
https://eig.org/noncompetes-research-brief/
As Gerstein writes, it's not unusual for the business lobby to lobby against things that are good for business – and lobby hard. The Chamber of Commerce has gone Hulk-mode on simple proposals to adapt workplaces for rising temperatures, acting as though permitting "rest, shade, water, and gradual acclimatization" on the jobsite will bring business to a halt. But actual businesses who've implemented these measures describe them as an easy lift that increases productivity.
The Chamber lobbies against things its members support – like paid sick days. The Chamber complains endlessly about the "patchwork" of state sick leave rules – but scuttles any attempt to harmonize these rules nationally, even though members who've implemented them call them "no big deal":
https://cepr.net/report/no-big-deal-the-impact-of-new-york-city-s-paid-sick-days-law-on-employers/
The Chamber's fight against American businesses is another one of those fracture lines in the conservative coalition. Working with far right dark money groups, they've worked in statehouses nationwide to roll back child labor laws:
https://www.epi.org/blog/florida-legislature-proposes-dangerous-roll-back-of-child-labor-protections-at-least-16-states-have-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk/
They also fight tooth-and-nail against minimum wage rises, despite 80% of their members supporting them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/leaked-documents-show-strong-business-support-for-raising-the-minimum-wage/
The spectacle of Republicans in disarray is fascinating to watch and even a little exciting, giving me hope for real progressive gains. Of course, it would help if the Democratic coalition wasn't such a mess.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/#anti-buster-buster
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The Gate will be released on Blu-ray (with Digital) in Steelbook packaging on May 14 exclusively at Walmart for $19.96. Other than the packaging, the disc is identical to Lionsgate's Vestron Video release from 2017.
The 1987 horror cult classic is directed by Tibor Takács (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and written by Michael Nankin. Stephen Dorff, Louis Tripp, Christa Denton, Kelly Rowan, and Jennifer Irwin star.
Vance Kelly designed the Steelbook art. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the interior layout.
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Special features:
Audio commentaries by director Tibor Takacs, writer Michael Nankin, and special effects designer Randall William Cook
Audio commentary by special effects designer Randall William Cook, special make-up effects artist Craig Reardon, special effects artist Frank Carere, and matte photographer Bill Taylor
Isolated score selections and audio interview with composers Michael Hoenig and J. Peter Robinson
The Gate: Unlocked featurette
Minion Maker featurette
From Hell It Came featurette
The Workman Speaks! featurette
Made in Canada featurette
From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of The Gate featurette
The Gatekeepers featurette
Making of The Gate featurette
Teaser trailer
Theatrical trailer
TV spot
Storyboard gallery
Behind-the-scenes still gallery
When best friends Glen and Terry stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen’s backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth The Gate — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they’ve released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever… if it’s not too late.
Pre-order The Gate.
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Do you guys have any more intersex rep books? There's only like 5 on here and it's hard to find anything ;w;
Main Characters:
Pantomime by L. R. Lam - bisexual intersex genderfluid MC
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E. K. Johnston - poc queer female x bisexual intersex female x male
None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio - intersex female
Golden Boy by Abigail Tartellin - intersex male
Annabel by Kathleen Winter - trans-femme intersex male
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides - Greek-American intersex transgender male
Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo - intersex female
Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsail - intersex female
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire - intersex female
Miss Jane by Brad Watson - intersex female MC born with vaginal agenesis that causes incontinence and prevents penetrative sex
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon - Nigerian intersex female MC forced to live as a boy
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon - black albino bisexual intersex MC who is partially blind and has chronic pain
The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett - intersex female questioning her gender identity
Lord of the Last Heartbeat by Mary Peterson - non-binary intersex MC (he/him)
Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski - intersex female
Just Ash by Sol Santana - intersex male
Trans Liberty Riot Brigade by L. M. Pierce - queer intersex female with a fantasy-drug addiction
Side Characters / World Building:
Temper by Nicky Drayden - intersex SCs in a world where everyone is born with a twin, and sometimes the genitalia gets "mixed" between them
2313 by Kim Stanley Robinson - intersex female MC due to future scientific advancements in a society without gender norms, where intersex / nonbinary seems to be the default
The Pursued and the Pursuing by A. J. Odasso - intersex female prominent SC (adopted daughter of main mlm couple)
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas - intersex prominent SC, but gender identity unknown
full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com
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Books of 2022
In 2022, I read fewer books overall (143, down from last year’s ridiculous 303) but I did manage to cut down on my romance novel reading---a respectable 52% instead of last year’s 78%. The consequence of this is that I did actually read more good books this year, books I could talk about with other people and inspired feelings and thoughts that rattled around my head afterwards. Plus some actual nonfiction!
Going through all of them, what I liked about them, why they made such an impression, would take a while---plus I’ve already talked about most of these in my books tag. So I’m just going to invite everyone to ask about anything that catches their eye!
BEST FICTION (IN THE ORDER I READ THEM) ** indicates a particular favorite
The House of Small Shadows, Adam Nevill
**The Cipher, Kathe Koja
Eartheater, Dolores Reyes
Hadriana in All My Dreams, René Depestre
**Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica 
You've Lost a Lot of Blood, Eric LaRocca
The Beautiful Ones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Girl A, Abigail Dean
This Might Hurt, Stephanie Wrobel
**Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes
Eva Ibbotson’s A Countess Below Stairs, A Company of Swans, & Magic Flutes
Deerskin, Robin McKinley
BEST NONFICTION
An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
**Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher
Urban Folklore in the Paperwork Empire, Alan Dundes & Carl R. Pagter
**Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
**Men, Women & Chainsaws, Carol J. Clover
[romance novels and most disliked books under the cut---I did give these a bit of an explanation, because being asked about romance novels makes me itchy. We shall never speak of these again.]
ROMANCE NOVEL READING
Vivienne Lorret (How to Forget a Duke, Ten Kisses to Scandal, The Rogue to Ruin, When a Marquess Loves a Woman, How to Steal a Scoundrel's Hear) Admittedly, nothing particularly unique about these---however, they are more traditional romance and a pretty decent attempt at actual regency-style manners, so I enjoyed myself reading them.
Olivia Atwater (Half a Soul, Ten Thousand Stitches, Longshadow) I actually sincerely loved these! Supernatural historical romance from a solid writer. Plus, the series has angrier, more class-conscious sensibilities than all the romance novels I've read---and is less hypocritical about it too, since the characters are largely not nobility, and there's no marrying dukes involved.
Alice Coldwater (His Forsaken Bride, An Ill-Made Match, The Unlovely Bride, Wed By Proxy) So admittedly, I don’t recommend reading all four of these together---it becomes increasingly clear that Coldwater can only write one and a half heroines, and both of them are excessively weepy. Nevertheless, I took a total leap of faith on this (historical fantasy romance isn't typically my genre) and was rewarded by a lot of delightful pining, some court politics, and the 1.5 heroines she can write are fun to follow around.
C.L. Wilson (The Winter King, The Sea King) If last year was about reading every romance novel about dukes I could find, this year was about finding all the fantasy romance novels. (Shout out to Stephanie Garber who also helped feed this inexplicable urge!) Anyway, this series was fun, similar to the above in that it’s fake fantasy politics and some romance, and that’s a combination that works for me.
MOST DISLIKED BOOKS
Redshirts, John Scalzi I have never despised a book quite like this one! I still can't tell if it's the smirkingly obvious Star Trek meta of it all, or the hat on a hat that is the last chapter/coda 1. I did like coda 3, but only because it felt like the only quietly, emotionally sincere part of the whole stupid book.
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robinson Novellas must be tricky to write---I’ve read a fistful or so, and find them to be wildly variable in quality and effectiveness. That said....the author’s attempt to resolve entrenched political problems via dance made me roll my eyes so hard I strained a muscle. It ruined what might have otherwise been a fun time, since I did like the narrator's charmingly disaffected perspective
Always Be My Duchess, Amalie Howard Emotional honesty and vulnerability has no place in romance novels. I read historical romance specifically so people won’t talk about their feelings, and the fact that romancelandia keeps shoehorning therapy-speak into my regency may in fact be my villain origin story. However, even worse than that is this book’s use of “totally” and "patriarchy" in a completely ahistorical way, betraying a nauseating disinterest in the time period being written about. Worse than even that: the total fucking coward's move it is to write a Pretty Woman fic but then have the heroine be a virgin and not a sex worker at all. God knows we can't be interesting.
Death, Laura Thelassa This one is my own fault. I did think "hey isn't that the romance series with the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse? I read one of those a long time ago; I should give it another shot." (I promise, I regretted it instantly.) However, it is another excellent entry in the long list of cowardly books that refuse to actually lean into enemies to lovers as a trope. Also, if you have undying protagonists? they should kill each other more.
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As promised, now that we're a few days out from the final submissions deadline, here is a list of all the actors who have been submitted and will be in the bracket so far! If you submitted someone and they aren't on this list, there is a chance I felt they fell into that category of not really having a super strong connection to sci fi/fantasy generally and where the roles noted for them weren't necessarily roles that they're very well known for, or in a couple of cases there were people submitted where the work listed for them was all post 2000. But there were only a very small handful of actors like that; I think almost everyone submitted should be on here.
The final deadline for submissions will still be April 27th. I'll make another post before the polls start with the finalized list of actors for the tournament.
The current list of actors is below:
Bruce Campbell
Tom Baker
Leonard Nimoy
Alex Winter
Mandy Patinkin
Gene Wilder
Jeff Goldblum
Danny John-Jules
Ricardo Montalban
Miloš Kopecký
Tim Curry
William Russell
William Forward
Michael O'Hare
Richard Biggs
Ed Wasser
Michael J Fox
Alec Guinness
Keanu Reeves
Colm Meaney
Clancy Brown
Jeff Conaway
Haruo Nakajima
Paul Darrow
Peter Jurasik
Stephen Furst
Scott Bakula
Andreas Katsulas
René Auberjonois
Armin Shimerman
Donald Sutherland
Kurt Russell
Christopher Lloyd
Jerry Doyle
Fredric March
Alexander Siddig
Bill Pullman
Arnold Vosloo
Keir Dullea
Lionel Jeffries
Buster Crabbe
Boris Karloff
DeForest Kelley
Laurence Fishburne
Ray Bolger
Jeffrey Combs
Andrew Robinson
Michael Dorn
Peter MacNicol
Richard Dean Anderson
Kyle McLachlan
Sam Neill
Mark Hamill
LeVar Burton
James Spader
Peter Weller
John de Lancie
Bruce Boxleitner
Avery Brooks
Jonathan Frakes
Patrick Stewart
Patrick McGoohan
Charlton Heston
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Wesley Snipes
Billy Dee Williams
Bela Lugosi
Val Kilmer
David Bowie
Dick Van Dyke
Doug Jones
Oded Fehr
David Duchovny
Jerry O'Connell
Mitch Pileggi
Michael Shanks
Nicholas Lea
James Doohan
George Takei
Leslie Nielsen
Warwick Davis
Vladimir Korenev
Walter Koenig
Garrett Wang
Rutger Hauer
Rick Moranis
Will Smith
Harrison Ford
Gareth Thomas
William Shatner
Ben Browder
Claude Rains
Tim Russ
Colin Clive
Brent Spiner
Peter Davison
Michael York
Nicol Williamson
James Marsters
Frazer Hines
Nicholas Courtney
Cary Elwes
Chris Sarandon
Lance Henriksen
Bill Paxton
Christopher Reeve
Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing
Raul Julia
Brendan Fraser
Rod Serling
Paul McGann
Anthony Stewart Head
Karl Urban
James Stewart
Mark Goddard
Guy Williams
Alan Rickman
Gary Conway
Vincent Price
Edward James Olmos
John Philip Law
Kerwin Matthews
Patrick Troughton
Ken Marshall
Patrick Swayze
Peter Capaldi
Andre the Giant
Cesar Romero
David Boreanaz
Alan Napier
Roger Delgado
Georges Méliès
Harry Hamlin
Duncan Regehr
Joe Morton
Ernie Hudson
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The Private Library
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Welcome! This post serves as my digital private library... my most beloved collection. None of these works are mine, and all credit is due to the lovely and incredible minds that created these works of art; (which you will find next to their titles, once you choose a category). This is the home to my personal most favorites, and most beloved stories and fanfictions and blog posts I have read. I think about these daily... I adore these. They've made my life better. They've changed my life. They've kept me going during my lowest points in life, and I mean that. I reccomend all of these. These were written by the best writers in the world; true to character, perfectly immersive, so imaginative, feels like you are there.
All of these fanfictions, stories, character & show analysis, random tumblr posts, headcannons, and beloved writings of all types, will be listed in no distinct order, inside their categories. Please Enjoy; explore them all! 🖤🗝☕🥂
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The Majorety of these reccomends are for mature audiences, 18+, so if you are a minor, please DO NOT read through these reccomends yet.
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NOTE: NO LINKS ON THIS LIST ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVE! LISTS ARE BEING FINISHED, AND LINKS WILL BE ADDED TO THIS LIST ALL AT ONCE, VERY SOON. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER MASTERLISTS, PINNED TO MY BLOG, AND SAVE THIS GOODIE FOR LATER! 😉
• Favorite STARWARS Reccomendations: (The Clone Wars, Prequels, Sequels, The Bad Batch) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite BTS Reccomendations: (mostly Taehyung, Namjoon, Yoongi, Jungkook, Jin, Hoseok) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite TMNT Reccomendations: (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bayverse Turtles, 80s, 2003 TMNT, Rise of the TMNT, 2007 TMNT) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite MARVEL Reccomendations: (MOON KNIGHT, WandaVision, LOKI, Loki Laufeyson, Avengers, XMEN, Wolverine, VENOM) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite LIE TO ME* Reccomendations: (Dr. Cal Lightman, Tim Roth *actor*) Headcannons / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite THE BOYS Recommendations: (Billy Butcher, The Boys Team) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite MY HERO ACADAMIA Reccomendations: (Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shouto, Kirishima Enji, Dabi) Analysis / Headcannons / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Good Omens Reccomendations: (Anthony J. Crowley *The Demon*, Aziraphale A.Z. Fell *The Angel*) Analysis / Headcannons / Fanfictions 🖤
• Favorite "Warden" Hwajin Na *Get Schooled Webtoon* Reccomendations: Analysis / Headcannons / Fanfiction / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Tom Hiddleston Reccomendations: (Tommy Hiddles *actor*) Headcannons / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite What We Do In The Shadows Reccomendations: (Vladislav The Poker, Viago Von Dorna Schmarten Scheden Heimburg, Deacon Bruke, Stu, Nick "Twilight", Anton The Werewolf, Nandor The Relentless, Guillermo De La Cruz, Lazlo Cravensworth, Nadjia of Axtapos, Colin Robinson) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite SHERLOCK Reccomendations: (Sherlock Holmes *BBC*, John Watson, classic sir arthur conan doyle books) analysis / fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite DC COMICS Recommendations: (BATMAN, The Batfamily, Nightwing, Robin, The Teen Titans) analysis / fanfictions 🖤
• Favorite Impractical Jokers Reccomendations: (The Tenderloins comedy troupe, Brian "Q" Quinn, Sal Vulcano, James S. "MURR" Murray, Joe Gatto) Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Portal Recommendations: (Portal, Portal 2, Wheatley, Chell, the Cores) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Ghostbusters Reccomendations: (Dr. Egon Spangler, Dr. Ray Stanz, Dr. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddermore) Analysis / Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite AVATAR (Na'vi) Reccomendations: (Jake Sully, Neteyam Sully) Analysis / Headcannons / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Stranger Things Reccomendations: (Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington) Headcannon / Fanfictions / NSFW & SMUT 🖤
• Favorite Tumblr Posts: (random, deep & intellectual, movie, life, advice, or most comedic posts, that make tumblr the greatest platform of all) 🖤
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mitjalovse · 1 year
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Should I be saying I discuss the idiom of jazz fusion here? Well, I guess I do that, since most of the musicians I mention here belong to that oft misinterpreted label. Then again, how could we actually define that style? Check for instance Go, one of the bands that is hard to Google. They were a supergroup, which consisted of Stomu Yamashta, Klaus Schulze, Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola and Michael Schrieve. Each of them brought his own sensibility to whatever they played, yet many websites consider their music to be jazz fusion. One can nod to this, since jazz provides them with a ground, whereas they add other elements from their own backgrounds and fuse them into this. Nonetheless, you can notice why many have some problems with the style – there are too many cliched signifiers.
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Tma characters that I think are trans women:
Peter Lukas (Starts biting my own arm off) (she does not know) (isolation theme)
Mike Crew (shes awesome) (takes no hrt just vibes) (she/he/they probably)
Georgie Baker (she slayy) (she vibe) (Im obsessed with her)
Helen Richardson (this one is just canon)
That one coffin gal from episode two
Gerry Keay
Tma characters I think are trans FEM but do not id as women:
Jonathan Simz (Weird nonbinary girlfreakthing)
Melaine King (Self-explanatory honestly)
Helen Richardson again
Sasha James
Jane Prentiss
Tma's various nonbinaries:
Timothy Stoker if she had lived past the unknowing (haha! Got your gender cracked by an evil clown who killed your brother looser)
Oliver Banks (she is sooo cool honestly Im obsessed with them. Another day another slay, king)
Gertrude Robinson (no explanation needed)
Martin Blackwood (he left his gender behind in the lonley 🙏 rip king)
Mr Pitch (mostly because eye think its funny)
Jurgen Leitner (funny again)
The spider from a guest for mr spider
Nikola Orsinov
Basira Hussain (girl-ways)
Daisy (dog)
Wouldn't it be funny if I put Callum Brodie on this list
Callum Brodie
Annabelle Cane (yeahg)
Tma characters whom I think are transmasc but dont id as men:
Jonah Magnus (yeah) (you know) (you know the drill)
Gertrude Robinson again
Micheal Shelly (uh huh)
Oliver Banks is also here
Julia Montauk
Celia
Martin Backwood again
Tma characters whom I think are trans men:
Agnes Montague (bites my own arm off)
Gertrude Robinson (yeah. Again. Hes got complexities, okay)
Rosie (uh huh) (yeah) (I know him personally)
Simon Fairchild (funny) (honestly hes just like me forreal) (slash j)
Tma characters whom I think are cis (sorry guys)
Jude Perry
Elias Bouchard (..maybe in another universe. Wink wink.)
Maxwell R*yner
Manuela
Jered Hopworth
Breekon and Hope but not like, their men or anything. They were just born agender like the humble mollusk
If I forgot someone just assume their nonbinary. Okay. Thanx 👍
very respectable. may i humbly present. my own assorted headcanons
genderfluid transfem jonah magnus. but like. it changes very slowly. takes like a decade to load a new gender. also alterhuman.
absolute opposite of that simon fairchild. gender changes by the hour. insert terminal velocity joke here. almost pangender in nature
trans man peter lukas. idk i just like this one.
transmasc non-binary lesboy melanie king. i know in my soul.
it's the portion of the post where i project. cistrans not!sasha, cistrans nikola orsinov, cistrans jane prentiss. goodbye
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gray-doestheart · 2 months
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“The things you’ve been lying about…”
Was practicing a pose then got into the groove of drawing this
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@mistressofthemacabresworld replied to your post “awwww, Peter! I just want to hug him. He looks so...”:
What did george raft do? (sorry I really don't know about him and his life)
​Raft was, by several accounts, something of an insecure bully. He got into fights with other actors from time to time, including Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, and once he apparently punched Peter Lorre onto the floor. Peter was, as usual, being mildly annoying on set, but that's no excuse for what happened (from Lorre's biography The Lost One):
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One of Warner Bros.’ more turbid spy melodramas, Background to Danger is probably better remembered for the fireworks behind the scenes. According to Mack Grey, Raft’s personal assistant, in one scene Raft sat tied up in a chair while Lorre blew smoke in his face. Cautioned to “knock it off,” Lorre instead laughed and persisted, earning him a belated clobbering in his dressing room.
Harvey Parry, Lorre’s stuntman, offered another version:
Peter was a little character and he knew exactly what he was doing when he was in a scene. And he was on this little bench, tailor style, with a cigarette and talking at the same time. George and Brenda Marshall were also in the scene and George asked Peter what the hell he was doing.
Peter says, “What do you mean?”
“With that cigarette.”
He says, “I’m stealing the scene.”
“You’re stealing the scene from whom?”
“From you and Brenda.”
“How can you do that?”
“They’re like you, they all watch me.”
George says, “You son of a bitch.”
So the scene was over and they had a little confrontation.
“Don’t put that cigarette in your mouth again.”
He says, “Georgie, I do what I want, you do what you want. I wish you good luck.” He bombed him. He hit poor Peter. He knocked him right off the little couch he was on.
Walsh grabbed him and said, “Now come on, George. He’s just a little helpless guy.”
Jack Dales, executive secretary of the Screen Actors Guild, told Warner Bros. general counsel Roy J. Obringer, that he would take no action on the George Raft–Peter Lorre matter unless a formal complaint was filed. In such a case, he added, the guild would have full jurisdiction to make a binding decision. But things never got that far. After Lorre agreed to return to work, Obringer assured Jack Warner that he found both actors “are working this morning.”
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