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good-realtor-bad-realtor-dynamic · 1 year

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In between all the Glenn and Charlie stories where they talk about how they got into acting, the plays they did in school, Juilliard and Williamstown and making a career of it, they managed to drop quite a few hints and little bits teasing all their upcoming projects.

Sunny Season 16 teases dropped in today's podcast:

Mrs Mac, Mrs Kelly and Uncle Jack are all back

Charlie is wearing his 'Murica bandana and possibly a denim jacket (filmed on the day of recording the pod)

Uncle Jack is in this America episode

Heath Cullens was directing it

Charlie has a few new sweatshirts this season

Mac is wearing a facial prosthetic to do a specific gag for one episode where something happens to him that affects how he sounds (they filmed it the day before this was recorded)

Megan is going to be directing two episodes

She and the other writers are working on finishing off the last two scripts while the guys are off filming season 16 and one of these scripts is only 25 pages so there's going to be room for a lot of improv

Charlie's movie Fool's Paradise is coming out on 12 May 2023 IN CINEMAS.

Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch-Drunk Love) did the score with a full orchestra and Charlie got to hit a gong

Ray Liotta was very excited for this movie to come out and used to phone Charlie because he wanted to see it RIP :(

Leslie Jones (Punch-Drunk Love, Thin Red Line) and Tim Roche (one of the Sunny editors) did edits on this film

Glenn is in the movie and Charlie says he's fantastic

Glenn's Blackberry movie is also probably coming out fairly soon considering he talks about some of the bts.

He found it hard to watch himself in the movie because his character tapped into a side of himself he loathes

I looked it up and he's playing Jim Balsillie, who's a real person so I could look it up and figure out why he's gross if I wanted to.

Related because it's from this episode but not quite related because it's not an upcoming show: see these photos of child Glenn Howerton doing theatre in Alabama and Juilliard before Sunny (1) (2)

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spnscripthunt · 1 year

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https://give.thetrevorproject.org/spnscripthunt1306

*** tl;dr For every $10 you donate to The Trevor Project, you will be entered in a raffle to win a script autographed by one or more Supernatural cast members. The more total donations we receive, the more scripts will be made available as prizes. ***

The Supernatural Script Hunt* came from humble origins, a handful of fans banding together to collect and preserve our fandom history, making as many scripts as possible accessible to fans worldwide. Since acquiring our first script nearly three years ago, and then branching out to involve so many fans supporting the work in the years since, it was always our intent to give it all back, and then some.

On April 9, 2021, we bought the Writer's 2nd Draft of Tombstone. It was always intended to someday benefit The Trevor Project. And just like Cas finally returning from the Empty and being welcomed back to his family, the day has finally come. It’s been autographed by Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles, and it could be yours.

When we began this project, the fandom collectively had six scripts from five episodes and a single network outline. In the three years since we bought our first script to add to that collection, the Supernatural Script Hunt group has amassed a total of 153 scripts from 138 episodes, casting sides from 50+ episodes, 50+ call sheets, arenas from 18 episodes, and other related documents. A complete list of items in our collection is on the SupernaturalWiki**, for a closer look, click here.

The time has come for us to offer everyone a chance to own their very own priceless souvenir of the show we all love so dearly. In doing so, we also want to honor the largest (hopefully!) legacy of our fandom: using our collective power for good. Which is why we're offering up some of the most treasured scripts in our collection in a raffle to benefit The Trevor Project, an organization near and dear to the hearts of so many Supernatural fans.

For every $10 you donate to the Trevor Project, you will be entered in a raffle to win one of the autographed scripts listed below. The more total donations we receive, the more scripts will be made available as prizes.

When donations reach $1000 total:

8.19 "Taxi Driver" - Production Draft (to be signed by Osric Chau at SPNNASH, 2022 Dec 16-18)

8.21 The Great Escapist (to be signed by Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins at SPNNASH, 2022 Dec 16-18)

9.23 "Do You Believe in Miracles" - Call Sheet and Script Sides: Day 1 of 8 (signed by Tahmoh Penikett at SPNDC 2022)

12.02 "Mamma Mia" - Production Draft (proxy cover signed by Ruth Connell at SPNDEN 2022)

12.08 "LOTUS" - Production Draft (signed by Ruth Connell, Mark Pellegrino, and Mark Sheppard at SPNNJ 2022)

12.10 "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets" - Blue Draft and three pages of concept art (script signed by Misha Collins at SPNDC 2022)

13.02 "The Rising Son" - Blue Draft (signed by Alexander Calvert and Misha Collins at SPNCHI 2022)

13.03 "Patience" - Yellow Collated Draft (signed by Alexander Calvert at SPNVAN 2022)

13.04 "The Big Empty" - Yellow Draft (to be signed by Misha Collins at SPNPHX, 2022 Nov 11-13)

13.05 "Advanced Thanatology" - Production Draft (proxy cover signed by Misha Collins at SPNDEN 2022)

13.07 "War of the Worlds" - Blue Collated Draft (signed by Misha Collins and the director of the episode, Richard Speight Jr., at SPNCHI 2022)

13.14 "Good Intentions" - Studio & Network Draft (signed by Jim Beaver and Samantha Smith at SPNNJ 2022; Sebastian Roche at SPNCHI 2022)

14.14 "Ouroboros" - Production Draft (signed by Alexander Calvert at SPNORL 2022)

When donations reach $2000 total:

13.06 "Tombstone" set

Writer's 2nd Draft (signed by Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins at SPNVEGAS 2022)

Production Draft (unsigned)

Stretch goals:

If donations reach $3000 total:

12.19 "The Future" - Production Draft (signed by Misha Collins at SPNORL 2022)

12.23 "All Along the Watchtower" - Production Draft (proxy cover signed by Jim Beaver and Mark Sheppard at SPNNJ 2022)

If donations reach $4000 total:

15.03 "The Rupture" - Pink Draft, Yellow Revision Pages, Green Revision Pages (signed by Alexander Calvert, Misha Collins, and David Hayden Jones at SPNTOR 2022)

15.08 "Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven" - Production Draft, Blue Revision Pages (signed by Jake Abel and Rob Benedict at SPNDC 2022)

15.09 "The Trap" - Production Draft (signed by Jensen Ackles, Rob Benedict, Misha Collins, and Jared Padalecki at SPNDC 2022)

If donations reach $5000 total:

11.10 "The Devil in the Details" - Blue Collated Draft, Yellow Revision Pages (to be signed by Jared Padalecki at SPNPHX 2022, Nov 11-13)

11.18 "Hell's Angel" - Production Draft (to be signed by Misha Collins at JIB11, 2023 Feb 23-25)

12.11 "Regarding Dean" - Blue Draft (to be signed by Jensen Ackles at SPNPHX, 2022 Nov 11-13)

12.12 "Stuck in the Middle (With You)" - Production Draft (signed by the director, Richard Speight Jr., at SPNORL 2022)

15.12 "Galaxy Brain" - Yellow Draft, Goldenrod Revision pages (signed by Rob Benedict and Kim Rhodes at SPNDC 2022)

Winners will be drawn by a random number generator on December 5, 2022. We require an email address to contact winners. If you donated anonymously but would like to enter the raffle, please email your receipt to [email protected] before the drawing date. Winners will have 72 hours to respond, and will be required to provide their physical mailing address and to cover the cost of shipping (currently $10 for priority mail insured inside the US, international rates to be determined as necessary).

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND WISH TO DONATE, PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION FROM CREDIT/ACCOUNT HOLDER.

As Castiel once told a patron of the Gas N Sip buying a lottery ticket, good luck!

The Trevor Project is the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people.

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth are more than 4 times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. Up to 50 percent of all trans people have made a suicide attempt - many before the age of 25.

For the last 21 years, Trevor has worked to save young lives by providing support through their free and conﬁdential crisis programs on platforms where young people spend their time online and on the phone:

TrevorLifeline — The only nationwide, 24/7 crisis and suicide prevention lifeline offering free and conﬁdential counseling for LGBTQ youth, available at 1.866.488.7386

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*We are not affiliated in any way with the production of Supernatural, the writers of Supernatural, Kripke Enterprises, WB or the CW. We're just a cooperative of fans who had a mission to preserve our show's legacy and history in a concrete and tangible way, and organized the heck out of assembling our collection.

**The SupernaturalWiki is run by fans, for fans. They do not accept advertising, the web hosting fees and technical support are supported by donations from fans. The materials on the site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial License. SupernaturalWiki is not our web host, our collection is hosted off-site.

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boundlss · 5 days

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wow !! so we are mutuals and you want to write with me !! what a presumptuous assumption i am making, but a delightful scenario for me to imagine !! in any case, i thought i'd make a post that was sort-of a very handy guide for if you ever want to send me a meme but aren't sure what muse to send it to !!

actually i'll disclaim for real that this is just for fun and i obviously never expect people to adhere to these sorts of things. frankly, activity levels are a lie on my blog---i'll answer anything for any muse at any time. don't quote me on this. but anyway, the real best way to interact is to interact with the muse(s) that YOU want the best. i promise i will not begrudge you for only being here for like 1-2 muses out of 68. i really promise.

but! in case some people are having trouble making up their minds and because i love to talk, here is a little fun helpful guide for every muse and how easy or complicated it is to interact with them!

p.s. if you have questions about how easy a specific single character is to interact with and what kind of muses specifically they would work best with. you can ask me at any time. please don't be shy because i am shy and that is not a good combination. you can even do it on anon i won't bite.

muses who don't require all that much plotting for initial interactions and are easy to get along with.

shirogane kei - log horizon. minagawa kanami - log horizon. nyanta - log horizon. roland fortis - vanitas no carte. ty lee - avatar: the last airbender. mukuhara kazui - milgram. yuezheng longya - vocaloid. dandelion - the witcher. latula pyrope - homestuck. jade harley - homestuck. mr. mistoffelees - cats. skimbleshanks - cats. mungojerrie - cats. rumpleteazer - cats. luminous - original character (log horizon). pleasant clemens - original character (clemens saga). ankita culathene - original character (d&d pc). phoenix fyre - original character (d&d pc). roy mayrana - original character (imiray). esisze rasruft - original character (imiray). nikodemas holloway - original character (imiray). finnegan twelve - original character (imiray).

muses who don't require much plotting for initial interactions but who are difficult to get along with.

lee seung-gil - yuri on ice!!! jim hawkins - treasure planet. sokka - avatar: the last airbender. striker - helluva boss. vernon roche - the witcher. isengrim faoiltiarna - the witcher. dirk strider - homestuck. vriska serket - homestuck. anton chekhov - original character (bungou stray dogs). leslaw - original character (the witcher). orion clemens - original character (clemens saga). henry clemens - original character (clemens saga). margaret clemens - original character (clemens saga). cyran azerrad kapral - original character (d&d pcs). yemevon - original character (d&d pcs). vesaithe hedmeni - original character (d&d pcs). feliks aasmae - original character (imiray).

muses who are easy to get along with but require heavy plotting for initial interactions.

abe no hirari - donten/rengoku ni warau. stolas - helluva boss. KAITO - vocaloid. GUMI - vocaloid. cahir mawr dyffryn aep ceallach - the witcher. aradia megido - homestuck. feferi peixes - homestuck. shang qinghua - scum villain's self saving system. shen qingqiu - scum villain's self saving system. munkustrap - cats. demeter - cats. benjamin clemens - original character (clemens saga). pamela clemens - original character (clemens saga). yanna lazaros - original character (imiray). kalypse - original character (imiray). dzenos - original character (imiray).

muses who are not easy to get along with and who require heavy plotting for initial interactions but i still love them.

jet - avatar: the last airbender. five pebbles - rain world. tom sawyer - mark twain. huckleberry finn - mark twain. luo binghe - scum villain's self saving system. no. 44 - original character (clemens saga). aurilis ayeva - original character (imiray). haven hadmatter - original character (imiray). choucherri - original character (imiray). maurissandre - original character (imiray). eliarin - original character (imiray).

it could not possibly be more complicated but i urge you to try anyway.

the long quiet - slay the princess. the princess - slay the princess.

#out of character #please read this post. praying emoji #ignore that the formatting makes no sense i literally can't fix the small text. xoxo. gossip girl.

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jimroche · 10 months

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At the edge of the forest where the children play. This is the fourth year this tiny fortress has stood.

#Jim Roche #pandscape Photography #Vancouver Artist

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fearsmagazine · 6 months

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AS WE KNOW IT - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Buffalo 8

SYNOPSIS: “Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, struggling writer James Bishop grapples with the emotional shrapnel of a recent breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Emily. As James holds up in his Hollywood Hills home with writer's block, his eccentric best friend Bruce shows up with bad news. The city has plunged into chaos by an unusual zombie outbreak, courtesy of tainted soy milk, wreaking havoc on James' semi-charmed kinda life. With the streets of Los Angeles swarming with the undead, James, Bruce, and Emily come together to barricade themselves in the house while reconciling their personal struggles. And occasionally, letting in the only food delivery service still operating, Abracadabra.” -Press Release

REVIEW: Josh Monkarsh’s film feels like a play as James’ home is the main setting and much of the story unfolds in the living room, kitchen and bedroom. The limited locations add to the feel of a 90’s sitcom, from “Seinfeld,” to “Friends” and the late 90’s “Freaks & Geeks.” Clearly these characters are in their mid to late 20’s but their lack of maturity make them seem much younger.

Monkarsh, DePaolo and Francis’s script is jam packed with 90’s references and bits and gags that rely on period as well. One of the jokes between James and Bruce is their love of “Waterworld,” which they watch on a laserdisc (yes, I still have a player and a collection of laserdiscs). It is clearly a love letter to that period of time when life was simpler and complicated in different ways before the advent of the smartphone, tablets and laptops. The absurdity of the zombie plague being caused by tainted soy milk takes a back seat to the relationship between the three characters, and Rory, the delivery person who happens to be an old acquaintance of Bruce, makes for a nice distraction.

The film has a rather dry pacing, and even Bruce’s chaotic moments come at a slower pace. There is an overall malaise that you would expect from the zombies. Somehow it all works and becomes engaging. Each actor brings elements to their performances that make for likable and sympathetic characters, even Bruce. It’s a great ensemble cast, but I have to say actor Danny Mondello creates this memorable character that could have easily been cliched but comes off fresh and memorable, like an early Joe Pesci performance. Actor Chris Parnell received a nice amount of screen time, with an additional scene during the credits, and it would have been nice to see a bit more of Pam Grier.

I enjoyed the cinematography, costumes and production designs that captured the period. The editing sustained my viewing engagement. The zombie make up and designs are simple and effective, as well as the special effects, with nothing too gorey. I liked Michl Britsch’s score. It enhanced the comedic tones of the film and added slightly more energy to the film.

AS WE KNOW IT is a relationship comedy set against the backdrop of a zombie outbreak taking place in Los Angeles. The film is kind of a 90’s American slacker reworking of “Shaun of the Dead,” with a tone similar to Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don't Die,” but without some of the film’s more bizarre moments. A fun and mildly funny trip down memory lane with some likable characters who take center stage over the zombies. Monkarsh does a nice job with the material but given his film credits to date I’m not sure when and if will see Monkarsh venturing into the horror genre again soon.

CAST: Mike Castle, Oliver Cooper, Taylor Blackwell, Chris Parnell, Pam Grier, and Danny Mondello. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Josh Monkarsh; Screenplay - Brandon DePaolo & Christopher Francis; Producers - Daniel Cummings, K. Asher Levin & Joshua Fruehling; Cinematographer - Stephen St. Peter; Score - Michl Britsch; Editors - Yvonne Valdez & Rebecca Weigold; Production Designer - Lorus Allen; Costume Designer - Zoe Poledouris-Roche; Special Effects - John McConnell; VFX Supervisor - Kevin Vanhook. OFFICIAL: https://asweknowitmovie.com/ FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/-0U1pgXaygk?si=MqlxM792N7xDsdPX RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10th New York City, Chicago, Seattle; Nov. 15th Los Angeles; Nov. 17th Boston; Dec. 1st Calabasas.

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)

Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

#film review #movie review #as we know it #buffalo 8 #Josh Monkarsh #Mike Castle #oliver cooper #Taylor Blackwell #pam grier #comedy #zombie #apocalypse #joseph b mauceri #joseph mauceri

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indiesole · 6 months

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THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

i.e. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

Rajesh Khanna

Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

Online Indie

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

George Orwell

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Catherine Deneuve

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bill Gates

Bhagwan Ram (Official God)

Michael Phelps

Michael Faraday

Audrey Hepburn

Dalai Lama

Grace Kelly

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin

Galileo Galilei

Gary Cooper

Roger Moore

John Huston

Blaise Pascal

Humphrey Bogart

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Morse

Wayne Gretzky

Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

Patrice Chereau (director)

Jerry Lewis

Louis Daguerre

James Watt

Henri Rousseau

Nikita Krushchev

Jack Dorsey

Dev Anand

Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

David Selznick

Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

Edith Piaf

Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God)

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lxstfuleclipse · 2 years

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【ＦＡＮＤＯＭＳ】

DEVIL MAY CRY ( 1-5 + REBOOT & ANIME )

Dante, Vergil, V, Nero, and Credo.

Nico, Trish, Lady, and Kyrie.

Reboot! Dante, Reboot! Vergil, and Kat.

ARCANE

Vi, Jinx, Sevika, Finn, Ekko, Vander, Silco, and Viktor.

Jayce, Caitlyn, Mel, Ambessa, Local Cuisine/Pretty Boy, Marcus, Grayson.

BAYONETTA

Bayonetta ( Cereza ), Jeanne, Rosa.

Luka Redgrave, Balder, Rodin.

BLOOD OF ZEUS

Heron, Seraphim, Alexia, Kofi, Evios, and Electra

Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Hades, Apollo, Ares, Poseidon.

CASTLEVANIA

Trevor, Sypha, Alucard, Lisa, Captain and Greta.

Dracula, Striga, Morana, Hector, and Isaac.

DAREDEVIL

Matt, Karen, Foggy, Wesley, Frank, and Elektra.

DEVILMAN CRYBABY

Akira, Miki, Miki (o), and Ryo.

DEVILS’ LINE

Anzai, Ishimaru, Hans Lee, Sawazaki, Juliana.

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN

Markus, Connor, Kara, Gavin, Hank, North, Simon.

FINAL FANTASY ( CURRENTLY 7 + 15 )

Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, Jessie, Biggs, Wedge, Yuffie, Sonon, Zack, Vincent, and Roche.

Rufus, Sephiroth, Tseng, Reno, Rude, Weiss, and Nero The Sable.

Noctis, Prompto, Ignis, Gladiolus, and Cor.

Lunafreya, Ravus, Aranea, Ardyn, Regis, Cindy, and Nyx.

LIFE IS STRANGE ( 1-3 + TELL ME WHY )

Max, Chloe, Rachel, Nathan, Kate, Warren, and Victoria.

Sean, Cassidy, Finn, and Esteban.

Alex, Steph, and Ryan.

Tyler and Alyson.

RESIDENT EVIL ( ALL GAMES + ANIMATED MOVIES )

Leon, Chris, Wesker, Billy, Piers, Carlos, Jake, Ethan, and Luis.

Claire, Jill, Ada, Rebecca, Sherry (RE6, duh), and Sheva.

THE WOLF AMONG US

TREASURE PLANET

Jim, Amelia, Sarah, Doppler, and Silver.

VOLTRON

Lance, Keith, Pidge, Hunk, Shiro, Allura, Matt, Coran.

Lotor, Ulaz.

LEGEND OF KORRA

Korra, Mako, Bolin, and Asami.

Iroh.

STRANGER THINGS

Eddie, Steve, Robin, Nancy, Jonathan, and Argyle.

#blood of zeus x black!reader #castlevania x black!reader #devilman crybaby headcanons #devil may cry x black!reader #arcane x black reader #final fantasy x black reader #life is strange headcanons #resident evil x reader #stranger things x black!reader #the wolf among us x reader #bigby wolf headcanons #bigby wolf x reader #x black!reader

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meta-squash · 1 year

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Squash’s Book Roundup of 2022

This year I read 68 books. My original goal was to match what I read in 2019, which was 60, but I surpassed it with quite a bit of time to spare.

Books Read In 2022:

-The Man Who Would Be King and other stories by Rudyard Kipling -Futz by Rochelle Owens -The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht -Funeral Rites by Jean Genet -The Grip of It by Jac Jemc -Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roche -Hashish, Wine, Opium by Charles Baudelaire and Theophile Gautier -The Blacks: a clown show by Jean Genet -One, No One, One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello -Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi -The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Three-Line Novels (Illustrated) by Felix Feneon, Illustrated by Joanna Neborsky -Black Box Thrillers: Four Novels (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, No Pockets in a Shroud, I Should Have Stayed Home) by Horace McCoy -The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert -The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco -Illusions by Richard Bach -Mole People by Jennifer Toth -The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann -Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse -Equus by Peter Shaffer (reread) -Ghosty Men by Franz Lidz -A Happy Death by Albert Camus -Six Miles to Roadside Business by Michael Doane -Envy by Yury Olesha -The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West -Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche -The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox -The Cat Inside by William S Burroughs -Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry -Camino Real by Tennessee Williams (reread) -The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg -The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams -Comemadre by Roque Larraquy -The Zoo Story by Edward Albee -The Bridge by Hart Crane -A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty -The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel -The Law In Shambles by Thomas Geoghegan -The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzche -The Maids and Deathwatch by Jean Genet -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -The Screens by Jean Genet -Inferno by Dante Alighieri (reread) -The Quarry by Friedrich Durrenmatt -A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (reread) -Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula -Pere Ubu by Alfred Jarry -Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson -Loot by Joe Orton -Julia And The Bazooka and other stories by Anna Kavan -The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed -If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind by Francisco Garcia -Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters -Indelicacy by Amina Cain -Withdrawn Traces by Sara Hawys Roberts (an unfortunate but necessary reread) -Sarah by JT LeRoy (reread) -How Lucky by Will Leitch -Gyo by Junji Ito (reread) -Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore -Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau -Bakkai by Anne Carson -Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers -McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh -Moby Dick by Herman Melville -The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector -In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (reread from childhood) -Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren -The Medium is the Massage by Malcolm McLuhan

~Superlatives And Thoughts~

Fiction books read: 48 Non-fiction books read: 20

Favorite book: This is so hard! I almost want to three-way tie it between Under The Volcano, The Quick & The Dead, and The Man With The Golden Arm, but I’m not going to. I think my favorite is Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. It’s an absolutely beautiful book with such intense descriptions. The way that it illustrates the vastly different emotional and mental states of its three main characters reminded me of another favorite, Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey. Lowry is amazing at leaving narrative breadcrumbs, letting the reader find their way through the emotional tangle he’s recording. The way he writes the erratic, confused, crumbling inner monologue of the main character as he grows more and more ill was my favorite part.

Least favorite book: I’d say Withdrawn Traces, but it’s a reread, so I think I’ll have to go with Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. I dedicated a whole long post to it already, so I’ll just say that the concept of the book is great. I loved the whole idea of it. But the execution was awful. It’s like the exact opposite of Under The Volcano. The characters didn’t feel like real people, which would have been fine if the book was one written in that kind of surreal or artistic style where characters aren’t expected to speak like everyday people. But the narrative style as well as much of the dialogue was attempting realism, so the lack of realistic humanity of the characters was a big problem. The book didn’t ever give the reader the benefit of the doubt regarding their ability to infer or empathize or figure things out for themselves. Every character’s emotion and reaction was fully explained as it happened, rather than leaving the reader some breathing space to watch characters act or talk and slowly understand what’s going on between them. Points for unique idea and queer literature about actual adults, but massive deduction for the poor execution.

Unexpected/surprising book: The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox. This is the first book about archaeology I’ve ever read. I picked it up as I was shelving at work, read the inner flap to make sure it was going to the right spot, and then ended up reading the whole thing. It was a fascinating look at the decades-long attempt to crack the ancient Linear B script, the challenges faced by people who tried and the various theories about its origin and what kind of a language/script it was. The book was really engaging, the author was clearly very passionate and emotional about her subjects and it made the whole thing both fascinating and fun to read. And I learned a bunch of new things about history and linguistics and archaeology!

Most fun book: How Lucky by Will Leitch. It was literally just a Fun Book. The main character is a quadriplegic man who witnesses what he thinks is a kidnapping. Because he a wheelchair user and also can’t talk except through typing with one hand, his attempts to figure out and relay to police what he’s seen are hindered, even with the help of his aid and his best friend. But he’s determined to find out what happened and save the victim of the kidnapping. It’s just a fun book, an adventure, the narrative voice is energetic and good-natured and it doesn’t go deeply into symbolism or philosophy or anything.

Book that taught me the most: Destruction Was My Beatrice by Jed Rasula. This book probably isn’t for everyone, but I love Dadaism, so this book was absolutely for me. I had a basic knowledge of the Dadaist art movement before, but I learned so much, and gained a few new favorite artists as well as a lot of general knowledge about the Dada movement and its offshoots and members and context and all sorts of cool stuff.

Most interesting/thought provoking book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I annotated my copy like crazy. I never had to read it in school, but I had a blast finally reading it now. There’s just so much going on in it, symbolically and narratively. I think I almost consider it the first Modernist novel, because it felt more Modernist than Romantic to me. I had to do so much googling while reading it because there are so many obscure biblical references that are clear symbolism, and my bible knowledge is severely lacking. This book gave me a lot of thoughts about narrative and the construction of the story, the mechanic of a narrator that’s not supposed to be omniscient but still kind of is, and so many other things. I really love Moby Dick, and I kind of already want to reread it.

Other thoughts/Books I want to mention but don’t have superlatives for: Funeral Rites was the best book by Jean Genet, which I was not expecting compared to how much I loved his other works. It would be hard for me to describe exactly why I liked this one so much to people who don’t know his style and his weird literary tics, because it really is a compounding of all those weird passions and ideals and personal symbols he had, but I really loved it. Reading The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc taught me that House Of Leaves has ruined me for any other horror novel that is specifically environmental. It wasn’t a bad book, just nothing can surpass House Of Leaves for horror novels about buildings. The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was absolutely beautiful. I went in expecting a Maltese Falcon-type noir and instead I got a novel that was basically poetry about characters who were flawed and fucked up and sad but totally lovable. Plus it takes place only a few blocks from my workplace! The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann was amazing and I totally love his style. I think out of all the stories in that book my favorite was probably The Blue Yonder, the piece about the murderer with a sort of split personality. Scintillant Orange with all its biblical references and weird modernization of bible stories was a blast too. The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams was amazing and one of my favorites this year. It’s sort of surreal, a deliberately weird novel about three weird girls without mothers. I loved the way Williams plays with her characters like a cat with a mouse, introducing them just to mess with them and then tossing them away -- but always with some sort of odd symbolic intent. All the adult characters talk and act more like teens and all the teenage characters talk and act like adults. It’s a really interesting exploration of the ways to process grief and change and growing up, all with the weirdest characters. Joe Gould’s Teeth was an amazing book, totally fascinating. One of our regulars at work suggested it to me, and he was totally right in saying it was a really cool book. It’s a biography of Joe Gould, a New York author who was acquaintances with EE Cummings and Ezra Pound, among others, who said he was writing an “oral history of our time.” Lepore investigates his life, the (non)existence of said oral history, and Gould’s obsession with a Harlem artist that affected his views of race, culture, and what he said he wanted to write. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh was so good, although I only read it because 3 out of my other 5 coworkers had read it and they convinced me to. I had read a bunch of negative reviews of Moshfegh’s other book, so I went in a bit skeptical, but I ended up really enjoying McGlue. The whole time I read it, it did feel a bit like I was reading Les Miserables fanfiction, partly from the literary style and partly just from the traits of the main character. But I did really enjoy it, and the ending was really lovely. In terms of literature that’s extremely unique in style, The Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector is probably top of the list this year. Her writing is amazing and so bizarre. It’s almost childlike but also so observant and philosophical, and the intellectual and metaphorical leaps she makes are so fascinating. I read her short piece The Egg And The Chicken a few months ago at the urging of my coworker, and thought it was so cool, and this little novel continues in that same vein of bizarre, charming, half-philosophical and half-mundane (but also totally not mundane at all) musings.

I'm still in the middle of reading The Commitments by Roddy Doyle (my lunch break book) and The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, but I'm not going to finish either by the end of the year, so I'm leaving them off the official list.

#squash rambles #reading year in review #book list year in review #book list #reading list #book roundup #reading roundup

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chirirenge · 10 months

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i need to take a moment to be incendiary.

since the release of the new season and douma’s first true appearance, ive noticed a lot of troubling things in the fandom. my thoughts on just how bad this season was aside, i’m particularly incensed by the fandom’s treatment of douma, and the way douma is portrayed by a lot of people who play him. no i will not name names, this isn’t a call-out post or anything of the sort : they’re allowed to play him how they want, but i’m also allowed to be irritated by it in my own private space. it’s one thing to lean hard into the douma is bbygirl meme ( believe me, in jest i do too ), but i’ve seen a lot of people take it way too far and use it to overlook just how twisted and disgusting he is behind that dumb gleeful visage. douma is a monster. douma would rather toy with you and use you for all you’re worth until you’re an empty husk and then eat your lifeless remains than entertain you woobifying him.

i’ve spent a good chunk of my life, which is considerably longer than most people in the rpc since i’m 31 and a real-life victorian relic, researching and studying serial killers, cults and cult mentality, psychology, and theology. douma is quite literally the buddhist anthropophagous version of roch thériault and shoko asahara, with a bit of jim jones and charles manson mixed in. i don’t feel that makes me better than anyone else interested in douma or writing douma, but i do think it gives me insight into his behavior and mindset that a lot of people may not consider when they look at him. given my fascination with the above topics, it’s super irritating to see douma dumbed down into something fetishy just because he’s pretty and this is the internet. i’m not surprised : just annoyed and disappointed. he’s upper two for a reason : he isn’t to be taken lightly just because he appears friendly ( emphasis on APPEARS ).

i remind you that i do not consider myself part of the fandom for reasons exactly like this, and this is also part of the reason i’ve been staying away from tumblr recently. i don’t appreciate when the muses ive put so much love and attention and research into are given surface-level or lewd-only treatment. let douma be sexy without being sexualized and while still being a gross violent selfish deluding cannibal.

#« in the temple. — 𝐎𝐎𝐂. »#hot take time i guess #negative /

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sweetsmellosuccess · 2 years

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TIFF 2022: Day 4

Films: 2 Best Film Of The Day: The Good Nurse

My Policeman: A stuffy romantic drama that serves as a de facto star vehicle for the beguiling Harry Styles, in an LGBTQ+-positive role as a young husband, who remains stolidly in love with another man for the entirety of his life. Styles plays Tom, a spry young copper back in 1957, who meets museum director Patrick (David Dawson) by chance one afternoon, and eventually sparks a passionate — completely illegal at the time — affair with him, around the same time he woos Marion (Emma Corrin), a sweet-faced schoolteacher. For a time, the three of them pal around together like something out of Jules y Jim: We see them singing boisterously at a club, zipping around in Tom’s car, and going to concerts and gallery shows without a care in the world. Behind the scenes, however, as Marion becomes aware of her husband’s double-life — especially when the boys take off together for a trip to Venice, a getaway that she makes no bones about resenting — things get more tense, until, eventually Tom is arrested for his “perversion” and is convicted, despite Marion’s plea as a character witness. In the aftermath, as we determine from the film’s many present day scenes, as an elderly Marion (now played by Gina McKee), takes in the fading Patrick (Rupert Everett), having suffered a stroke that leaves him virtually speechless, despite the protestations of Tom (Linus Roche, in the thankless role of older Styles), who refuses to have anything to do with his old love. Directed with a finicky fustiness by Michael Grandage, the film seems perpetually bogged down in a malaise. Styles, for his part, is fine enough, though playing a character so regarded and coveted by everyone can certainly be considered typecasting. The early scenes with Patrick and Tom are meant to show their unbridled passion — there are several non-graphic scenes of the two of them lunging nakedly on top of one another, tenderly kissing each other’s shoulder blades — but the chemistry feels off, and very little about the present-day scenes seem to connect to what they once were. Laborious and stodgy, it feels like a prime example of a certain kind of stodgy British romance, all unspoken feelings, and dreams deferred, old chap.

The Good Nurse: Tobias Lindholm is a great filmmaker, whose storytelling talents are particularly suited towards a kind of methodical procedural, be it fictionalized (A Hijacking; A War), or not (the HBO series “The Investigation”). His first American-produced film, a fact-based drama about a nurse suspected of killing his patients in different hospitals for years before finally being arrested, offers him a chance to exploit those skills with a top-rate pair of leads. Those would be Eddie Redmayne, as Charlie Cullen, the nurse in question, a quiet, seemingly caring, self-deprecating sociopath; and Jessica Chastain, as Amy Loughren, the beleaguered nurse who first befriends Charlie as he begins to work at her hospital, and ends up instrumental in finally getting him captured. Lindholm, working from a taut screenplay by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (from the nonfiction book by Charles Graeber), doesn’t traffic in dramatic cliches, and histrionic flourishes. There are few combative scenes here, and fewer still where characters spin into scene-stealing exaltations (save for perhaps one from Redmayne near the end, where his suppressed character’s psychopathic intensity terrifyingly reveals itself). In place of such dramatic fodder, there are the simple facts of the case: Starting in the mid-’90s, Cullen was able to move from hospital to hospital, killing dozens of his patients (one estimate has his death toll topping 400), all without ever being arrested, reprimanded, or even flagged by his former workplaces, who suspected him of malice, but were too afraid of the potential financial culpability in exposing him to make him stop. Amy, a single mother working the nightshift, and coming home to help get her two young daughters off to school in the mornings, has problems of her own — a worsening heart condition that she’s trying to keep under wraps until her health insurance finally kicks in after her first year at the hospital — and, at first, welcomes Charlie’s earnest attempts to comfort her, helping her through her own health episodes at work, so she can keep her job. But when patients start coding on the regular, and Charlie becomes the lead suspect for a pair of local detectives (Noah Emmerich and Nnamdi Asomugha), Amy begins to question her friend, and wants to do something to stop him. As an indictment of a privatized health system that values corporate self-protection over stopping a serial killer from moving freely through the healthcare system, Lindholm’s film is soberly effective. That severity limits the emotional register for Chastain and Redmayne to a degree, but it also encourages the pair of powerhouses to internalize their performances — Redmayne is a study in concealed ferocity, his face a mask of empathy, his manner gentle and compassionate — in a way that challenges both of them to audacious work.

Wherein the author contemplates this year’s offerings and the past decade of covering this fabulous film festival, as he’s poised to embark on a new career path that will more than likely involve him standing up in front of a group of sullen teens, espousing the glories of the Russian masters, rather than taking in a beatific week of international cinema in the early days of September.

#sweet smell of success #piers marchant #ssos #movies #films #tiff #toronto international film festival #2022 #my policeman #harry styles #the good nurse #tobias lindholm #eddie redmayne #jessica chastain

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