#suzanne toro

[magdatara]

(Suzanne Toro)

"...When events come at us, is when our life gets its meaning. This is when we do our best, for it is all we can do to understand the experiences good or bad, that make our life.

When we leave our own page of history our best is all that counts. When the time has come to pack, and we find no room for all we wanted to take along with us to the underworld, our best is all that counts." ~ Hopi Meditation

This week we anchor into "THE reboot" with the opportunity to surrender and practice CALM. May all beings have great courage to do your best and let go gracefully.

#SoundCloud #music #Suzanne Toro #Meditation #Mindfulness #SoundHealing #DharmaTalk

[l-1-z-a]

Halloween 2003 at Maxis: The Social Bunny

At the Maxis 2003 Halloween Costume Contest, we were visited by the Social Bunny. In the new version of The Sims, the Social Bunny appears only to those who are in need of extra social, so it's not such a good sign that we could all see it.

Photos courtesy of Komei Harada and Andreas Ramos.

The social bunny hops into the middle of the crowd to begin a few impromptu socials as (L to R) Kelly Riley, Marion Gothier, Kevin Byall, and Emmy Toyonaga watch.

Poor social bunny! Someone has rejected the bunny's social attempts, and now he walks away sad. Who wouldn't want a hug from a soft, fuzzy, ratty, stained, one-eyed bunny? Kevin Byall and Charles London watch this sad sight.

Here's the bunny with a collection of other spirits from the Costume Contest. Back row (L to R): Lisa del Toro, Alvin Go, the Social Bunny, unknown, Justin Graham, BJ West, Cory Tsang, Kevin Byall, David Benson, Wendy Bliss.

Front row: unknown, Suzanne, Jenna Chambers, Gretchen Carlson, unknown.

Whew! After a hard day of spreading sociality everywhere, the bunny waves goodbye.

At right, the bunny takes a well-deserved rest. The bunny learned to respect the entertainers who populate our nations' amusement parks... those heads are hot!

But you can't keep a bunny down for long! Later that night, the bunny popped back up at Patti Wilson's Halloween Party. Patti's friend Naomi looks on as the bunny sees more people in need of social. It's unclear how the bunny's eye returned for this picture, when in fact it was sewn shut until after the evening was over.

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Pay attention to the first 2 photos. They have a printed screenshot on the wall that shows a hot tub. But the UI in this screenshot is not from E3 2003, but from earlier builds with Purple UI:

The third photo hanging reference photos to something and to the Marrocan style of objects in game.

#Leo Hourvitz #halloween #2003 #maxis #sims 2 #sims 2 beta #the sims 2 #sims2 #social bunny #screenshots #purple ui #Marrocan

[hesitationss]

i'm hoping to do pitching events and apply for creator grants soon, so i'm asking a bunch of friends for feedback plus i am curious to see which idea tumblr likes too! i'm currently trying to figure out which one to focus on since they are all at similar stages of development. if you want, you can also share your thoughts about why you picked the one you did! descriptions for each concept under the cut.

Dirty River

Pitch: During the occupation period, a 16 year old is living with her mom in a pacified village where the military force is stationed to crush the guerilla army. After a near death experience in a the nearby river, a ghost-like monstrosity begins to torment the occupying imperialists.

Comp: Pan’s Labyrinth dir. Guillermo Del Toro x Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli) x ATLA (blood bending and painted lady episodes)

Audience & Genre : Young Adult with some mature themes (poverty, war, death) | Horror (Ghost story, Folk Horror), Drama, Historical Fiction.

Extra Info: Takes place in a mountain village in fictious 1940s china. the monster is a ghost woman made of eels. plot b is that the protagonist is being pressured into marriage, in a sense, the vengeful eel woman is her saviour. it's partly a retelling of puteri gunung ledang who made impossible requests of a sultan because she was not allowed to formally refuse his advances.

Swimming Lessons

Pitch: Elementary school student Winny Yee has been signed up for swimming lessons after her family receives a low-income qualifying membership at the YMCA. Attempting to recover from almost a decade of failed swimming attempts, she takes her first kicks and tries not to sink.

Comp: This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki x Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and [GN adaption artist] Emily Carroll

Audience & Genre: Middle Grade w slightly mature themes (poverty, social anxiety, puberty, gender) | Social Realism, Coming of Age

Extra Info: Winny has an undiagnosed developmental disorder that is somewhat mild so she doesn't receive support which is why she feels she is always "behind". Mature themes include things like growing boobs, precocious puberty from implied family and poverty stress and feeling anxious about occupying a changing body. Set in the Pairies.

Summer Flood

Pitch: Chinese-Canadian coming of age family drama - At the start of summer, 20 year old Kiana Hom and her family move back to her childhood home to care for her ailing grandfather after a frightening trip to the emergency room.

Comp: Bone by Faye Myenne Ng x This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki x Driveways dir. Andrew Ahn

Audience & Genre: Young Adult/Adult | Coming of Age, Family Drama, Social Realism, Multicultural

Extra Info: Social realism topics include eviction, micro-agression from White Canadians, their elderly Indigenous neighbour being neglected by Accessible Transit, medical care neglect, mother-daughter tension, but overall learning to adapt and find joy despite adversity. Set in the prairies, like 2006?. Basically: cleaning up your hoarder grandfather's neglected house which is your childhood home and the memories that accompany that.

Skinning House

Pitch: Late 80’s - Childhood friends are re-united when Lucy’s neighbourhood is displaced from gas leak explosions. The large house of her family’s friend is one of both magic and horrors. Featuring - Witches, werewolves, queerness, hauntings/gothic themes, romance, coming of age.

Comp: Tithe by Holly Black x Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker x Mamo by Sas Milledge

Audience & Genre: Young Adult | Coming of Age, Fantasy, Horror/Gothic themes, Urban Fantasy

Extra Info: Lucy is the protag, but her childhood friend Cam is being magically tortured by their father who treats them like an animal since their mom (witch) turned them into a werewolf and went missing. Lucy, also a witch, is being hunted by something inside the house. Late 80's in a developing prairie city beginning just before winter.

thanks!!!! <333

#no rbs pls !! #if you took the time to read all of that... thank you!!! #okay getting ready for bed now!!

[komodocomics]

Hey why whi who is josh hutchensin i sont fucking know

Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle Fightmaster, who worked for Delta Air Lines, and Chris Hutcherson, an EPA analyst. He has one younger brother, Connor Hutcherson. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his goal, Josh and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was nine-years-old.In 2002, Josh landed his first acting role in the TV film, House Blend (2002), with Amy Yasbeck, Dan Cortese and Sean Faris. The same year, Josh was cast in the pilot, Becoming Glen (2002), but Fox did not order it to series (though, several years later, it was reconfigured as the short-lived series, The Winner (2007), starring Rob Corddry, and co-written/produced by Seth MacFarlane). Toward the end of 2002, Josh appeared on an episode of ER (1994).Josh made his big-screen debut, in 2003, with a bit part in the Oscar-nominated American Splendor (2003). His career began its measured ascent in 2005 with a supporting slot as one of Will Ferrell's kids in Kicking & Screaming (2005), a co-starring role in the indie hit Little Manhattan (2005), and another co-starring role in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), which was originally conceived as a sequel to Jumanji (1995). Despite underperforming at the box office, "Zathura" helped earned for Josh his first Young Artist Award for "Leading Young Actor".2006 saw bigger returns for Josh's burgeoning film career with a role as one of Robin Williams' sons in the modest hit, RV (2006). The following year, he landed his first breakthrough role in Bridge to Terabithia (2007), the kid-approved adaptation of Katherine Paterson's novel that co-starred AnnaSophia Robb, whose career was also taking off at this time.Josh starred as Brendan Fraser's nephew in another family-film hit, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and he had a smaller role in the Crash-like drama, Fragments (2008), though by now his face and name were being used in movie-marketing materials. Though it wasn't a hit, Josh's character in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) served as a major plot device early in the story.In 2010, Josh co-starred in the critically-acclaimed film, The Kids Are All Right (2010), alongside Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Mia Wasikowska. The film received several awards and four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Josh's performance as the youngest child in a family, led by two mothers, earned him acclaim from audiences and the industry, alike. Josh followed up with an expanded role in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), which saw Dwayne Johnson take over as the main character from Brendan Fraser. Between the star power and the allure of 3D, the sequel was a worldwide hit and a third installment is in development.With the announcement that he would portray the beloved "Peeta Mellark" in The Hunger Games (2012), the film adaptation of the best-selling novel written by Suzanne Collins, Josh became an instant celebrity. In the wake of the movie's massive worldwide success, Detention (2011), a horror/comedy that Josh made before "The Hunger Games", was released. Josh was also an executive producer on that feature.Before Josh reprises his role as "Peeta" in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), we will see him in the long-delayed remake of Red Dawn (2012); the omnibus 7 Days in Havana (2011) (aka "7 Days in Havana") (Josh's segment was directed by Benicio Del Toro); The Forger (2012) opposite Lauren Bacall, Alfred Molina, and Hayden Panettiere; and the animated Epic (2013) from Ice Age (2002) co-director (and voice of "Scrat"), Chris Wedge.

BornOctober 12, 1992

[playedlist]

night sight (for nourishing the soul)

Lofi, Jazz, Soul, R&B, D&B, Electronica

Track List:

1. Sur une chanson en Français - Paradis

2. Toi et moi - Paradis

3. Asylums for the feeling feat. Leila Adu - Silent Poets, Leila Adu

4. goodbye - Mk.Gee

5. Nostalgic Montage - Salami Rose Joe Louis

6. Double Astral Move - Rejoicer

7. Chowdr - Mndsgn

8. Afternoon Shuffle - Mndsgn

9. Instantané - Paradis

10. Recto Verso - Paradis

11. Setting Out - Daedalus, Amir Yaghmai

12. TRACK ONE - Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes

13. Teardrop - Massive Attack

14. Butterflies - Dardust

15. Næturflug - Yakamoto Kotzuga Remix - Dardust, Yakamoto Kotzuga

16. In Dark Trees - 2004 Digital Remaster - Brian Eno

17. The Big Ship - 2004 Digital Remaster - Brian Eno

18. Intro - Mk.gee

19. cz - Mk.gee

20. dimeback - Mk.gee

21. Song For Spirit Flights - Rejoicer

22. Earth Talk - Rejoicer, Sam Wilkes

23. My Beans - Rejoicer, KerenDun

24. Lemons - Rejoicer, Jenny Penkin

25. Eternal Loop - Sam Gendel

26. Waraku3 - Sam Gendel

27. They B All Like - Sam Gendel

28. Summer Madness - Kool & The Gang

29. Bahia Dreamin' - Karriem Riggins

30. kometostai.aintreallynootherwaytoputitro - Knxwledge

31. Auntie's Lock/Infinitum - Flying Lotus, Laura Darlington

32. Licorice - MF DOOM

33. Swimming - Maple Glider

34. if you're not the one for me who is - keshi

35. Mockingbird - Uma

36. Jazz Club After Hours - Barry Can't Swim

37. Time Moves Slow - BADBADNOTGOOD, Sam Herring

38. Nice & Shiny - Slohmo

39. And We Go Gentle - Hiatus Kaiyote

40. Red Room - Nick Hakim Remix - Hiatus Kaiyote, Nick Hakim

41. Action Line - Dorothy Ashby

42. Imagineering - Nightmares On Wax

43. Ghostride - Crumb

44. Stone Or Lavender - Hiatus Kaiyote

45. Atari - Hiatus Kaiyote

46. Time, Being - Johnny Nash, Suzanne Kraft

47. Locket - Crumb

48. Crust - Flying Lotus

49. Them Changes - Thundercat

50. QACHINA - Damien Jurado

51. Camel - Flying Lotus

52. Melt! - Flying Lotus

53. Comet Course - Flying Lotus

54. Merry Go Round - The Equatics

55. Imprint After - Toro y Moi

56. Koko - E.VAX

57. Eagle In The Lodge - Rejoicer

58. Plantasy - Resavoir

59. Some Thing's Coming - I Monster

60. Summer Nights - Lonnie Liston Smith, The Cosmic Echoes

61. Together Is A Beautiful Place To Be - Nala Sinephro Remix - Nubya Garcia, Nala Sinephro

62. Gentle Persuasion - Keith Mansfield

63. Thomas The Fib - Red Snapper

64. Be Right With You - HOMESHAKE

65. She Wakes Up / First Dimension - Salami Rose Joe Louis

66. ache for - always centered at night, Moby, José James

#nightsight #car music #Thundercat #jazz #r&b #soul #electronica #playlist #mf doom #mk.gee #massive attack #hiatus kaiyote #Spotify

[themedicalstate]

A Year Like No Other

1. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 20 Bodies were stacked in a refrigerated trailer at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. More than 20,000 New Yorkers died in the spring surge of coronavirus infections. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

2. Queens, N.Y., April 1 Paramedics worked to resuscitate a coronavirus patient at a hospital. The borough emerged as the center of New York City’s raging outbreak. Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

3. Washington, Oct. 24 Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg set up over 220,000 white flags as part of an art installation outside the D.C. Armory to represent the nation’s death toll from the coronavirus at the time. Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times

4. Houston, July 15 A coronavirus patient on a ventilator at Houston Methodist Hospital. During the summer surge, the hospital created new virus wards, hired traveling nurses, and ramped up testing efforts. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

5. Mexico City, June 24 Workers burned the coffins of Covid-19 victims after their bodies had been cremated. Mexico had one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world. Marco Ugarte/Associated Press

6. Wantagh, N.Y., May 24 Olivia Grant hugged her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo, through a plastic drop cloth hung on a clothesline. It was their first contact since the start of the lockdown caused by the pandemic. Al Bello/Getty Images

7. Manaus, Brazil, May 25 Rows of newly dug graves at a cemetery in Manaus, the Brazilian Amazon’s biggest city, where at one point every Covid-19 ward was full and 100 people a day were dying. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

8. Manhasset, N.Y., April 19 Eliana Marcela Rendón was comforted by her husband, Edilson Valencia, as her grandmother, Carmen Evelia Toro, 74, lost her battle against Covid-19 at a hospital on Long Island. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

9. Newark, Del., April 30 A nurse took a moment in a massage chair in an “oasis” room at Christiana Hospital, set up to give stressed medical workers a breather. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

10. Coventry, England, Dec. 8 Medical workers cheered for Margaret Keenan, 90, after she became the first person in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. “I feel so privileged,” she said. Pool photo by Jacob King

#science #medicine #pandemic #2020 #wear a mask #wash your hands #stopthespread

[thenightling]

I love Gaslight fantasy

I love Gaslight fantasy.  Gaslight fantasy is also known as Gaslamp fantasy.  And before I go any further, no I am not “Confusing” the terms.   Gaslighting as a term comes from a 1940s film called “Gaslight” where a man tricks a woman into doubting her perceptions of reality.   The concept of “gaslighting” as a verb to mean this didn’t exist until that film.   The title of the film was named for the object, “gaslights” which were common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This has nothing to do with “gaslighting.”   I should not have had to explain this but... Tumblr...  

There is a new genre of fantasy / Gothic horror fiction called Gaslight fantasy.   This genre can be compared to High Fantasy, Gothic Horror, and Steampunk in many aspects and yet it is wholly it’s own entity.   

Gaslight Fantasy is a genre where a fantasy world resembles our world’s Victorian era but the supernatural such as monsters and magick are known to be real.  It bears a lot of elements of Gothic Horror and many examples of Gaslight Fantasy also fit the genre of Gothic Horror but unlike the term “Gothic Fantasy” which feels like an attempt to circumvent acknowledging that Gothic Horror is a form of Horror, Gaslight Fantasy can exist in tandem with Gothic Horror as descriptors for the same property.  As a result it is a new sub-genre I welcome as opposed to “Gothic Fantasy” which feels like a term invented by those embarrassed of liking horror.  

Example: Barnes and Noble slapping “Gothic Fantasy” across the cover of their leather bound versions of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as Dracula, and Frankenstein.  Those are all Gothic Horror and the use of “Gothic Fantasy” feels like a term for those ashamed of the horror aspect or don’t realize horror can be more than just gore and jump scares. 

Further note: Frankenstein is often considered the first science fiction novel but Victor found the secret of life while reading the works of Agrippa and Paracelsus, a self-proclaimed alchemist and sorcerer.  Also Victor was studying metaphysics, not biology.  The Frankenstein monster is often considered (in fantasy-loving circles) to be a “Flesh golem with a soul.”  Psuedo-intellectualists seem to chafe at the idea that Frankenstein is a horror story and prefer to call it science fiction because there is still this incorrect ant antiquated notion that horror is low brow and cannot contain romanticism or emotional, spiritual, and moral explorations. 

Even The Shape of Water, which can easily be mistaken as a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of The Creature (But with a happy ending for The Creature) is often called “Supernatural romance” instead of Horror even though there are scary moments, atmosphere, violence, death, supernatural elements, and other things usually associated with the horror genre. 

The same thing happened with Silence of the Lambs, which was branded “Thriller” when it got its Oscar nomination.   It seems the Oscar nomination might be why The Shape of Water isn’t classified as horror either.

Director Guillermo del Toro (though a clear lover of Gothic Horror) seems reluctant to classify his own films as Gothic Horror even though Crimson Peak is clearly paying homage to Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath and Hammer Horror films.       

It’s the cultural resentment of Gothic Horror that makes me dislike the term “Gothic Fantasy” but I am willing to embrace the new idea of Gaslight Fantasy that can exist within Gothic Horror or side by side with it, in the same story. 

Though it’s still a relatively new genre I do love the refreshingly new concept of Gaslight Fantasy as a reimagined Victorian era that isn’t just full of zeppelins, steam engines and gears (like the typical superficial Steampunk tropes) but also supernatural creatures and or magick being common place.   Not to mention so many fantasy stories are set in a pseudo-Middle ages Europe-esque land like in Game of Thrones and The Witcher, that it’s clever and different that the fantasy world doesn’t look like the late dark ages but instead the late nineteenth century, just to give it a different aesthetic and atmosphere while retaining a sense of wonder and historical nostalgia, though blatantly and deliberately inaccurate.    

  Examples of Gaslight Fantasy include: Amazon Prime’s Carnival Row - Set in a nineteenth century style city where humans, faeries, werewolves, Franeknstein-style monsters, trolls, fauns, and centaurs co-exist.   This is probably the first true, mainstream, gaslight fantasy and the best example of the genre.  It deals with Jack the Ripper style murders in a slum inhabited by magical creatures.  It’s a lot like Penny Dreadful but Penny Dreadful pretends to be set in our world where most people do not know the supernatural exists whereas Carnival Row is not quite our world and people know about most of the supernatural creatures who reside there.  

Dolls of New Albion - Dolls of New Albion is described as a steampunk musical, is set in a world where human souls can be summoned from Elysium (Greek Heaven) and inserted into semi-mechanical dolls.  The fact that the afterlife is treated as a common knowledge fact in a world that just resembles ours in the Victorian era, and human souls can be inserted into doll-like bodies indicates to me that this actually drifts into Gaslight fantasy.     

The movie Van Helsing- Though this film is what I would call Goth Action (Gothic Horror merged with action) the film Van Helsing is very much what I would consider Gaslight fantasy. Set in what looks like our world’s Victorian era and even using real-world place names there are distinct differences, such as The Vatican behaving as a secret monster hunting organization instead of just the Capital of the Catholic Church.  Similar can be said about the setting of Castlevania that is distinctly another world even though it resembles ours and has our European place names though that one is set in the fifteenth century.

Howl’s moving Castle - Though bearing Steampunk elements, the common knowledge of magick, in a setting that is not quite our world, and reminiscent of the Victorian era of our world, or even the Edwardian era, makes Howl’s Moving Castle very much a Gaslight fantasy.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Though easily considered Steampunk or Gothic Horror, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen bears some fantasy elements mixed with the horror and the resemblance to our world is dubious at best. 

Stardust - The film and novel by Neil Gaiman deal with a wall that separates the human world from the realm of Faerie and a young man’s journey where he meets a fallen star in humanoid form, and his own long lost mother.  In this world the barrier between the human world and the realm of magick is a known and tangible fact.

Discworld - The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett are set in a fantasy world known as.. the Disworld, supported by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle, the Discworld pays homage to and parodies fantasy tropes in a pseudo-Victorian / Edwardian setting.  The setting includes witches, wizards, Death incarnate, ghosts, golems, faeries, and so on.

His Dark Materials - His Dark Materials (i.e. The Golden Compass) is set in a fantasy version of the Edwardian and provides a stark commentary about religion and society.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - A very odd British mini-series and novel about two competing men who work with magick in what looks like late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century England but it’s really its own fantasy setting.  The subplot deals with a dark faery known as The Gentleman and his schemes.

A study in Emerald - Another one by Neil Gaiman, this is an alternate universe version of Sherlock Holmes’ story A Study in Scarlet, but a version of late Victorian England where Lovecraftian Old Ones have taken over and nothing is quite what it seems.  Anno Dracula - Anno Dracula is an alternate universe version of Victorian England set after the events of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker but if Dracula had won and married Queen Victoria.

Beauty and the Beast - The 1740 novel by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Though nearly a century before the Victorian era this does fit much of the criteria of the Gaslight Fantasy.  There’s political intrigue with faeries, and unlike the Disney film, the novel is not set in France. It’s a fictional land that just resembles eighteenth century France.  And there are other fictional kingdoms such as “The Summer Isle.”  

Pinocchio -  The original novel by Carlo Collodi was set in a surreal, fictionalized version of early 1880s Europe and featured anthropomorphic animals, faeries, self-aware tree bark, and heavy handed human to animal transformations to represent the metaphor of becoming a jackass.   

Ravenloft - The Gothic Horror portion of Dungeons and dragons.  Where Dungeons and dragons already featured elves, dwarves, and wizards Ravenloft contains vampires, Flesh Golems (Frankenstein-style monsters) and werewolves.

Castlevania - Not so much the Netflix Castlevania series... yet but parts of the Castlevania video games franchise count as Gaslight fantasy.  Castlevania begins in a fantastical version of fifteenth century Wallachia (Romania) where vampires, demons and various other monsters are known to be real.   Later installments in the game are set in that world’s version of the nineteenth century.  Though place names match our own it is very clearly not our world as teleporting castles, vampire warlords, and entire towns being wiped out by vampire armies never made it into our own history books.   There are also some steampunk-esque historical inaccuracies in technology and science.  Castlevania is most assuredly a horror themed franchise but it also fits the criteria of Gaslight fantasy.

#Carnival Row #Gaslight Fantasy #Gothic Horror #Gothic Fantasy #Steampunk #Scifi #Fantasy #Faeries #Fae

[vintage1981]

George A. Romero’s Lost Film The Amusement Park Comes to Shudder

Shudder has acquired rights to George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, the film from the Night of the Living Dead helmer that was considered lost until a print surfaced in 2018.

The AMC Networks’ horror-centric streaming service will make the movie available in North America, U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand this summer.

After a print of Amusement Park was tracked down by Daniel Kraus, longtime collaborator with director Guillermo del Toro, in 2018, the 1973 film was restored in 4K by IndieCollect in New York City.

George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park was commissioned by the Lutheran Society with the charter make a movie about shoddy treatment of the elderly in contemporary society. But Romero’s 52-minute production was never released because the nonprofit group found it to be too gruesome for mainstream audiences.

George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park stars Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself increasingly disoriented and isolated during a visit to the amusement park. What he initially assumed would be an ordinary day quickly turned into a hellish nightmare filled with roller coasters and chaotic crowds.

Shudder described George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park as “perhaps Romero’s wildest and most imaginative movie, an allegory about the nightmarish realities of growing older.”

“The moment we heard ‘The Amusement Park’ had been rediscovered and was being restored, we knew we had to bring this unseen George A. Romero masterpiece to Shudder members,” said Craig Engler, Shudder general manager.

Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, founder and president of the George A. Romero Foundation, served as a producer on the film. George Romero died in 2017 at the age of 77.

“The first and only work-for-hire in Romero’s career sheds a new perspective on an ongoing issue of ageism and Romero’s uncanny sense of reflection on society, and the Romero ‘footprint’ is ever present and bodes well for the future of his impact on American cinema,” Desrocher-Romero said. “We are thankful to Yellow Veil Pictures who helped forge a path for us to find the most perfect custodian for this piece. Shudder understands that this film adds an important element to the Romero oeuvre. We are grateful.”

#George A. Romero #George Romero #The Amusement Park #Suzanne Desrocher-Romero #Shudder #Craig Engler #Daniel Kraus

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #17

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit (films)

Beowulf (wiki)

Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Howard Shore (wiki)

The Lord of the Rings soundtracks (1, 2, 3)

The Misty Mountains (spotify)

Richard Armitage (imdb)

The Rule of Three (wiki)

Ian McKellen (imdb)

“Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?” asked the king.

“We did not attack them,” answered Thorin; “we came to beg, because we were starving.”

“Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?”

“I don’t know, but I expect starving in the forest.”

“What were you doing in the forest?”

“Looking for food and drink, because we were starving.”” Chapter 8: Flies and Spiders, immortalised in this post

The Thousand And One Nights (wiki)

“...and they all trusted Bilbo. Just what Gandalf had said would happen, you see.” Chapter 9: Barrels Out of Bond

D&D - stealth checks, experience points

Benedict Cumberbatch (imdb)

““There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If  more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!”” Chapter 18: The Return Journey

“Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not,  he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before had the heart to make a joke again.” Chapter 18: The Return Journey

Lindsay Ellis video essays on The Hobbit films (youtube)

Aiden Turner (imdb)

Evangeline Lilly (imdb, the "no love triangles" thing)

He was a boy, she was a girl (youtube, post)

Bagginshield

Orlando Bloom (imdb)

Lee Pace (imdb)

Skyrim

The Hunger Games (films)

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

record scratch, freeze frame (meme)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)

Amazon's upcoming Middle Earth tv series (wiki)

Amazon's Wheel of Time Adaptation (wiki)

Peter Jackson (imdb)

Guillermo del Toro (imdb)

Studio Ghibli (wiki)

Spirited Away (2001)

Space in Studio Ghibli films (essay)

The arkenstone is a silmaril theory (post)

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis; Eustace Clarence Scrubb becoming a dragon

“His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.” Chapter 12: Inside Information

M is talking about a) Fafnir (wiki) and b) the theory that the character known as the last survivor in Beowulf turns into the dragon that Beowulf fights at the end (“The Dragon King of Beowulf”, Raymond Tripp, In Geardagum, 2005; More About the Fight with the Dragon, 1983)

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition at the British Library (website)

The Tolkien exhibition at the Bodleian, Oxford (website)

The Sutton Hoo gold (wiki)

Tolkien's letter to the German publisher who asked him if he was Jewish (full text)

Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

Sansukh, @determamfidd (ao3, specific chapter)

““But we have never forgotten our stolen treasure. And even now, when I will allow we have a good bit laid by and are not so badly off” - here Thorin stroked the gold chain round his neck - “we still mean to get it back, and to bring our cruses home to Smaug - if we can.”” Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Next Time on Teaching My Cat To Read

My Friend Mr Leaky, J. B. S. Haldane (full text)

#tmctr #teaching my cat to read

[coffinn]

Dark Academia Songs

If I accidentally put one song more than once, please tell me.

•Take me to church-Hozier

•Saint bernard-Lincoln

•Achilles come down-Gang of youths

•Ophelia-The lumineers

•The takes-Taylor Swift

•Body-Mother mother

•505-Arctic monkeys

•Dorians Theme-Charlie moles

•Afraid-The Neighborhood

•The unwanted animal-The amazing devil

•Sex with a ghost-Teddy hyde

•The Cult of Dionysus-The Orion Express

•La Mer-Claude Debussy

•Dr Mabuse-Propaganda

•Dreams-the Cranberries

•Yellow-Coldplay

•Cloudbusting-Kate Bush

•Breakout-Swing Out Sister

•Theme-Bioshock 1

•Pruit Igoe-Phillip Glass

•Goodnight Socialite-The Brobecks

•Cape Town-The Young Veins

•Killer Queen-Queen

•Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen

•Your Woman-White Town

•Tom's Diner-Suzanne Vega

•For the Damaged Coda-Blonde Redhead

•I Want to Feel Alive-Lighthouse and the Whaler

•Feed the Machine-Poor Mans Poison

•Ann Wants to Dance-Papooz

•Charlemagne - Blossoms

•Dinner and Diatribes - Hozier

•Arsonist’s Lullaby - Hozier

•The Bad List - Z Berg and Ryan Ross

•Black Balloon - The Kills

•Jenny Of Oldstones - Florence and The Machine

•What The Water Gave Me - Florence and The Machine

•The Night We Met - Lord Huron

•O Death - Jen Titus

•From Finner - Of Monsters And Men

•Your Bones - Of Monsters And Men

•All The King’s Men - The Rigs

•Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

•Sweet Ophelia - Zella Day

•Drawn To The Blood - Sufjan Stevens

•Mystery Of Love - Sufjan Stevens

•For Everything A Reason - Carina Round

•nebraska - low hum

•nuclear - mike oldfield

•imagine siblings - no buses

•change (in the house of flies) - deftones

•Not your kind of people - garbage

•Black sheep - metric

•Every planet we reach is dead - gorillaz

•Dance little liar - arctic monkeys

•Eighth wonder - lemon demon

•First six months of love - michelle gurevich

•Up to no good - the hoosiers

•better than me - the brobecks

•Burning pile - mother mother

•razzmatazz - idkhbtfm

•knee socks - arctic monkeys

•the key to life on earth - declan mckenna

•pumped up kicks - foster the people

•soda - nothing but thieves

•take a slice - glass animals

•secret door - arctic monkeys

•arms tonite - mother mother

•Leave me alone - idkhbtfm

•cold cold cold - cage the elephant

•body - mother mother

•out of my league - fitz and the tantrums

•alright aphrodite - peach pit

•in circles - darren korb ft. ashley barret

•bleed magic - idkhbtfm

•a good song never dies - saint motel

•dead inside - younger hunger

•i can't handle change - roar

•silvertongue - young the giant

•oh ana - mother mother

•choke - idkhbtfm

•witches - alice phoebe lou

•old yellow bricks - arctic monkeys

•honey whiskey - nothing but thieves

•sofia - clairo

•pleaser - wallows

•the fall - half alive

•the cult of dionysus - the orion experience

•fluorescent adolescent - arctic monkeys

•i'm not okay - weathers

•happy together - gerard way ft. ray toro

•social climb - idkhbtfm

•marceline the vampire - steppes

•do it all the time - idkhbtfm

•animal - sir chloe

•christmas kids - roar

•chandelier - will paquin

•jealous - eyedress

Please feel free to recommend more DA related songs and I'll add them on to this list.

[magdatara]

(Suzanne Toro)

#SoundCloud #music #Suzanne Toro #suzannetoro #besimply #besimplyradio #innerpeace

[hawthorn-and-nettles]

PSRC 2020

A book that's published in 2020 - Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel

A book by a trans or nonbinary author - All the Birds In the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders

A book with a great first line - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

A book about a book club - The Accidental Bookclub - Jennifer Scottt

A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

A bildungsroman - Playlist for the Dead - Michelle Folkoff

The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - Fire Touched - Patricia Briggs

A book with an upside-down image on the cover - Verity - Colleen Hoover

A book with a map - Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs

A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - World War Z - Max Brooks

An anthology - Tiny Crimes - Various Authors

A book that passes the Bechdel test - Frost Burnes - Patricia Briggs

A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - The Passengers - John Marrs

A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - My Lady’s Choosing - Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

A book about or involving social media - The Future of Us - Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher

A book that has a book on the cover - Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs

A medical thriller - Post Mortem - Patricia Cornwell

A book with a made-up language - The Tales of Beetle the Bard - J.K. Rowling

A book set in a country beginning with "C" - The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford

A book you picked because the title caught your attention - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

A book published the month of your birthday - Thin Air - Lisa Gray

A book about or by a woman in STEM -  Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World -Rachel Ignotofsy

A book that won an award in 2019 - Scrublands - Chris Hammern

A book on a subject you know nothing about -  Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever - John Marshall

A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro and Chick Hogan

A book with a pun in the title - Crime Brulee - Nancy Fairbanks

A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - The Lust Killer - Anne Rule

A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - SF 18 - Various Authors

A book with a bird on the cover - Beastkeeper - Cat Hellison

A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - THe Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title - Heart of Gold - Robin Lee Hatchen

A book by a WOC - Silver Sparrow - Tayari JOnes

A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - I am Legend - RIchard Matheson

A book you meant to read in 2019 - The Photo Ark - Joel Sartore

A book with a three-word title -One Word Kill - Mark Lawrence

A book with a pink cover - Girl on a Plane - Miriam Moss

A Western - Silver Lining - Maggie Osbourne

A book by or about a journalist - The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman

Read a banned book during Banned Books Week - The Giver - Louis Lowry

Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - The Heist - Janet Evanovich

Advanced

A book written by an author in their 20s -Vicious - V.E.Schwab

A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title - 24/7 - Jim Brown

A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - Tangerine - Edward Bloom

A book set in the 1920s - Death Scene - Jane A. Adams

A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - Tokyo Heist - Dianna Renn

A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - The Fall - Chuck Hogan

A book with more than 20 letters in its title - Quidditch through the ages by Kennilworthy Whisp / J.K. Rowling

A book published in the 20th century - The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

A book from a series with more than 20 books - Night Broken - Patricia Briggs

A book with a main character in their 20s - Howl’s Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones

#popsugarreadingchallenge #2020 #booklover #quarantine reading #finally finished

[edge-complains-and-loves-art]

"Answer these questions then tag eight people you'd like to get to know better"

Thanks for the tag @rintomoj uwu

1) Birthday: November 24

2) Zodiac: Saggitarius♐

3)Height: 5' 4, I guess-

4)Last song I listened to: In hell i'll be in good company by The Dead South (kshdhs @judas-had-a-crown you created a monster, now I am nagging my friends with this song AHAH, thank you for making me know it uwu)

And rn i'm listening to Night Train by Greame James (his song are soooo relaxing, I recommend them to you if you want to relieve stress -w-♡)

5)Hobbies: Drawing, reading, listening to music, spending time with cats (yes this is an hobby for me shhh) and playing the piano or writing (when I have the time :v)

6)Last movie I watched: I don't remember :D)

7)Favourite books: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Trollhunters by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro, Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti and The Chronicles of Egg by Geoff Rodkey (hshshs it's been YEARS since i last read The Chronicles of Egg but i remember that i read the first two books at least 15 times, I NEED to read them again;<;)

8)Dream job: artist👉🏻👈🏻, I still have a lot to learn but I'll do my best to improve :D

9)Favourite colors: uuuh, I don't really have a fav color, but i really like red, black and purple

10)Meaning behind my url: I started signing my designs under the name Edge like during the second year of middle school (cause i thought i was veeery edgy, yeah grrr). I really liked this name and it's really close to my heart, and since it doesn't let people understand either my gender nor my nationality, I thought it was perfect for tumblr :v. But nOPE. The name Edge was already taken (obviously). So i added the name of my fav Naruto clan after it, AHAH. So yeah. Edgy-senju is the result :v

Now let's tag (sorry people ;^;)

@gladyzzia @judas-had-a-crown @crungusgrungus @escape-chan-side @venustasio @nervousprunetrashdreamer @lesbian-1-moomin @shadowstarsart

#tag game #long post #srry :''D #questions

[babbushka]

Zannah’s Book Club - March

Hey guys! So since some of you have expressed an interest in hearing the books that I’m going through, I thought I’d put together a little list of the titles I’m either currently reading, or about to start reading for the remainder of this month!

Some of these are research for my fan-fiction projects, others are research for my professional writing, and some are just for fun. I hope you find something new or interesting that might inspire you to pick up for yourself! 

Fiction

The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro

Biography

Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way by Suzanne Braun and Mary Thom

Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug by Leandra Ruth Zarnow

Non-Fiction

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England by Ruth Mazo Karras

Please let me know if you’d like a post/video giving my feedback and reviews on any of these titles! 

And if you happen to pick up any of these books for yourself, please do let me know what you think of them! I’d love for us to have a fun dialogue about some of these topics, like a very informal book club among friends :) 

#zannah's book club #book rec #book recommendations #non fiction #yes literally the only book written by men is the fiction one lmao #and yes its for fanfic lmfao

[kakasakumuses]

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°✧∘˚The lovely @thesliveren tagged us. Thank you for the tag, dear! It took a short while to kick all the muses into action but every question has our answers now!°✧∘˚

°✧∘˚Nickname:°✧∘˚ Erato: Calliope has the nickname Callie Callie: Thalia sometimes calls her Cliopatra Clio: Melpomenes’s nickname is Melpo and everyone but herself calls her that. Thalia: The nickname for Erato is Lydia. Even more so after our Discord discussion. Melpomenes: I have given Thalia the nickname Ithalia because there is nothing worse than being a Greek muse and being called a different country.

°✧∘˚Zodiac:°✧∘˚ Callie: Scorpio! Clio: A Gemini and sometimes a Cancer Melpomenes: I’m a Virgo. Erato: Sagittarius Thalia: Aquarius

°✧∘˚Number of followers: °✧∘˚ 119

°✧∘˚Height:°✧∘˚ Callie: 1.71m Clio: 1.69m Melpomenes: 5’3 Erato: 1.68m Thalia: 5’2

°✧∘˚Hogwarts House:°✧∘˚ Callie: Slytherin Clio: Ravenclaw Melpomenes: Ravenclaw Erato: Gryffindor Thalia: Hufflepuff

°✧∘˚Last thing I googled:°✧∘˚ Callie: Overalls Clio: What is the zodiac for June 20th Melpomenes: Edward Cullen everything about me invites you in Erato: arhcive of our own Thalia: the shadow of kyoshi

°✧∘˚Song stuck in my head:°✧∘˚ Callie: I’ll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan Clio: Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine because Melpo is blaring it Melpomenes: Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine Erato: Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars because Callie watched Pitch Perfect and sang that out loud along Thalia: Whatcha Say by Jason Derulo. I lied. Now I have it stuck in my head.

°✧∘˚Amount of sleep:°✧∘˚ Callie: 11 hours and counting Clio: Six hours Melpomenes: I slept a minimum of four hours and a maximum of five last night. Erato: a solid 9 hours Thalia: Wait, sleep is a thing? Never enough

°✧∘˚Lucky Number:°✧∘˚ Callie: 11 Clio: 6 Melpomenes: 7 Erato: 2 Thalia: 17 because of the ABBA song of the Dancing Queen of course

°✧∘˚Dream job:°✧∘˚ Callie: A famous artist, but maybe a librarian or an art teacher. Clio: Archeologist Melpomenes: Story editor Erato: Greek philosopher Thalia: I want to be a Kardashian

°✧∘˚Wearing:°✧∘˚ Callie: PJs Clio: Pyjamas. Melpomenes: It is a pyjamas day in this house so I am wearing pyjamas, too. Erato: PJs Thalia: The fanciest dress I own ... PJs

°✧∘˚Favorite song:°✧∘˚ Callie: Anywhere Is by Enya Clio: Kiss Me Slowly by Parachute Melpomenes: Ego by Willy William Erato: Highway to Hell by ACDC or Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple Thalia: Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede

°✧∘˚Favorite Instrument:°✧∘˚ Callie: Piano, or violin, or transverse flute. Clio: Piano Melpomenes: Guitar Erato: Triangle Thalia: Triangle

°✧∘˚Aesthetic:°✧∘˚ Callie: Cottagecore Clio: Adventurecore Melpomenes: Dark Academy Erato: Romantic Goth Thalia:

°✧∘˚Favorite authors: °✧∘˚ Callie: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Jane Austen. But also, I’m speaking for all my sisters when I say that every author in this fandom has captured our hearts. Clio: Terry Pratchett and Suzanne Collins( or Jane Austen here?) Melpomenes: I want to mention Guillermo del Toro because of his work in the film industry, but as a true answer to the question I will unquestioningly pick Sylvia Plath. Erato: Virginia Woolf and William Shakespeare Thalia: Ann Brashares

°✧∘˚Favorite animal noise: °✧∘˚ Callie: That first bark of a dog then he doesn’t know how to do it correctly Clio: A chick peeping Melpomenes: A bird setting flight from a tree branch and flapping its wings while it soars through the leaves. Erato: A cat purring Thalia: the thing the fox says

°✧∘˚Random note: °✧∘˚ Callie: Who are you really? Clio: Do your best to make room for things in your life that spark joy Melpomenes: Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc. Erato: Reading a slow burn at 4 am is self care Thalia: Send me memes next Memeday or else!

If you see this, you are tagged! Look under the read more for an easy template!

°✧∘˚THE MUSES°✧∘˚

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Nickname:

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Random note:

#tag game #thesliveren #the muses sing together #callie #clio #melpomenes #erato #thalia #melpo #the muses #kakasakumuses #clio: tag reader you are TAGGED

[what-if-i-imagine]

Tagged! Rule: tag 8 people you want to know better.

Thanks for tagging me @harleykeenerdeservesbetter I’m always open to chat!

Name/Alies: Willow

Birthday: May 12th

Zodiac: Taurus ♉️

Height: 5’5

Hobbies: Writing, reading, cooking/baking, playing piano & saxophone, role play.

Favorite color: Lavender, ocean blue and mint green.

Favorite books: We Are the Ants (Shaun David Hutchinson), Everything Everything (Nicola Yoon), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins).

Last song listened to: Feeling Good- Michael Bublè.

Last movie watched: John Wick

Inspiration/Muse: Tomorrow, What it means to love (platonic, romantic and self), underdogs, my aloe plant Ryu, my dog Toro, the word adore.

Dream job: Foster mom, author, child psychologist.

Url meaning: The word imagine is kinda in all of my urls. It’s pretty much just me escaping into my imagination, hence “what-if-i-imagine” and my Ao3 “i_can_only_imagine”.

I tag: @bumbblebeeeeee @peachy-keener @hey-im-pan @princess-elliyora @harleykeenerdeservesbetter um... that’s really it sadly. Not many people talk to me.