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kalosstarters · 2 years

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I finally saw the new Jn opening and here’s my reaction (sorry in advance):

-Awww a flashback to Ash getting Pikachu! It’s been a long... journey indeed.

-And Go seeing Mew as a kid! I like what they did with this sequence. They have both been going for their dreams so long.

-Dawn with Koharu (I can’t use her English name) during holidays... I wonder if this is purely for the op reasons or if she will still appear...

-ALOLA ALOLA Ash playing with his Alola mons ♥♥ That made this OP worth it (pls pls pls let him go back soon ok?)

-Wow, things are getting serious for Ash when it comes to the championship tournament. I just wish I felt more attached to his mons bc... I feel I don’t ‘know’ them the way we knew f. ex. his Alola and Kalos mons... Give them more screentime ok. Also, I need to give a special shoutout to Ash turning his cap bc that feels v nostalgic

(at this point I need to cut this post bc too long)

-Either way that sequence was pretty badass, looks like Ash will be using all 3: dyna/gigantamaxing, mega evo and... :’) pika’s z-move in the future (listen, I’m partial to everything Alola. No you can’t change my mind)

-I don’t care about Go but if they show more Gary during project Mew stuff, I’m here for it :’D

-Oh Koharu... why does her sequence look exactly like Serena’s in the xy openings. I’m not sure how to feel about that. May costume tho?

-TR in the balloon also reminds me of one of the xy openings, perhaps xy&z? (can you guys tell which 2 seasons are my favorites???)

-GARY AND HIS MONS!! ♥

-yay for Wallace and Lisia even tho the pokeani twitter ‘spoiled’ that :’D

-Iris ♥♥ Pls I wanna see her again too (idk what this part of the op rly means tho, pls tell me what you think. Will all of these characters be back? Or are they just showing them to showcase different regions...?)

-Marnie, yay, even tho I still haven’t watched her first ep yet! Maybe tomorrow.

-Bonnie and Clemont ♥♥♥ (not surprising bc of.... pokeani twitter, but I’m still happy) Altho it kinda seems like Bonnie might be talking to Ash via a video call but... idk. I definitely hope we will see them properly in some ep tho.

-Perhaps one of the biggest surprises in this op: Paul.... What is he doing there??

-Glad that Tokio has a bayleef, best mon ♥

-Greninja tho??? What does THIS mean?? I’m not sure I’m ready to know (someone on yt speculated that perhaps Ash will also see Alain on his future Kalos journeys and pls I need that in my life even tho I’m like 99,9% sure it won’t happen)

-Glimpses of Ash vs Leon... this season really is coming to a close v soon and I’m not sure how they’ll have time to make ALL of this happen before that???

-The Ash&Pikachu moment (btw you have no idea how hard it is for me to write the full names when I and my friend always speak like ‘pika’, ‘Clem’, ‘Bae’....) at the end ♥ :3

And that was it! So! While I’m a bit sad that the pokeani twitter didn’t leave us a lot of surprises, it looks like there’s a lot of interesting stuff coming up and I’m definitely feeling a bit more hyped than earlier into this season. (Only Alain and Mairin’s return & Alola lab fam ep would /really/ manage to chance my mind about this season tho. I’m a petty person like that)

#tia watches pokemon jn #sorry not sorry!#too long commentary #pokeani

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tsff21 · 3 years

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They straight up gave Marnie, Nessa and Bae cockney accents this is the best game ever

#pokemon #pokemon masters #pokemon masters ex

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alolanrain · 4 years

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Found Family!AU *Christmas Edition* Pt.2

Imagine Opal dealing with Madam Boss and bby Giovanni

Gio learns all his baking skills from his Aunt Opal

But his mother hated her sister with a passion

So he doesn’t see her often

When Madam Boss dies, it’s a bloody gory mess, he’s the first one to call her

“I have a son.” Is his hello, because I’m not making Giovanni and utter asshole in this AU he’s going to love Ash from a distance and actually steps down from Team Rocket the first time Ash stops him

And Opal is like, “P l e a s e let it be with that Female Kanto Trainer you brought to Galar that one Christmas, she’s such a sweet heart.”

And Opal finds out it is!!!

She puts her foot down on choosing the name bc Giovanni is fucking HORRIBLE with names and Delia was so tired and stressed a lot during the pregnancy to the point she couldn’t get a lot of shit down for the baby’s

Ash forces reluctant Grunkle Kabu to come to Alola for a week to meet up with extremely reluctant Grunkle Nanu

NANU AND KABU ARE EX-BOYFRIENDS

And Ash doesn’t even KNOW

Acerola kinda knows bc there’s this one picture her Uncle Nanu has at his desk at the police station next to a frame of her parents, him, and Acerola as a baby

She never commented on it and catches Nanu either looking at it with such a warm smile or either a really pained look in his eyes

it was a friendly split up

Both got to busy

And just had to let go

But it still hurt them a lot

ALLISTER AND ACEROLA ARE GHOST BESTIES

No but I’m expanding on the relationship of Bby! Ash and Gary with the older Head Chairman, who I’m naming Diego Thorn, and Younger!Rose, and finally Younger!Kabu

I’m hc that the Chairman BEFORE Chairman Thorn was named Theo Grass

So it’s kinda like earth, grass, thorn, then rose

Because it’s the pretty things in life that are truly poisonous

grumpy Grunkles are getting back together with the help of Ash, Gary, and the Ghost baby’s

the only reason why Kabu is considered a Grunkle is because both Ash and Gary seemed to have fucking LOVED him so much and he fathered Delia a lot since her own family was shit

So he’s the honorary Grunkle while Nanu IS Ash’s Grunkle bc yes tf Nanu is Giovanni’s Uncle but he’s really distant so he never actually found out Ash was his great Nephew until Ash at the age of 20-something came stumbling into his police station with wide whisky brown eyes and shocking black hair and a jaw line that seemed to familiar that Nanu could never forget

Chairman Thorn ALWAYS Came down from his work place, dragging Rose and his own assistant/secretary, Milly, to see bby Ash and Gary bc he’s a really big family man and the two boys absolutely adore him as much as Thorn adored them

And Delia was so afraid at first that Opal would nearly be/ or just plain be the same as Madam Boss and hurt the poor girl but it’s quite the opposite

Opal spoiled her SO HARD, she was the one to make sure that Delia and Gio had everything they could need for Bby Ash’s arrival and afterwards

And both women found out that they share a deep love for winter in general

So they start small traditions that they then pass down to Ash and Gary, because the Oaks get sucked into this bc Professor Oak can’t say no and Daisy loves Delia like the mom she barely remembers

And Opal is just like “Yes more great grand babies.”

And she was there for Delia when Giovanni left Ash and Delia, yes she was absolutely ROYALY pissed at her Nephew, but she also knew why Gio did what he did

Because he did the best thing to protect her, Ash, and by extent the Oaks as well

Because he fathered Gary and Daisy as much as Delia mothered them

But it because a tradition to bring the kids up to Galar to see Graunty Opal and Grunkle Kabu and spend the second week of December all the way to a week after New Years there

So like almost a whole month of family lovin’ time

BUT IMAGINE BBY ASH WADDLING INTO THE GYM FEILD AND CLINGING ONTO OPAL WHOS TALKING TO LEON/RAIHAN/OR BOTH BEFORE THEIR GYM BATTLE

AND SHE NEEDS TO GRAB SOMTHING BUT ASH IS CLINGING ONTO HER LEG SO OPAL JUST S C O O P S HIM UP AND HANDS HIM OVER TO THE TRAINER(S) AND IS LIKE “brb gotta go get some stuff before hand” AND JUST L E A V E S THEM THERE WITH BBY ASH WHO HAS JUST STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS AND HAS FALLEN SO HARD IN LOVE WITH POKÉMON

Raihan would just inwardly panic bc he’s never been good with baby’s before

But damn OH DAMN does Leon start bouncing Ash up and down while trying his best to answer Ash’s questions because he absolutely ADORES children at Ash’s age and wants to get better bc his mom and dad are thinking about having another kid and he wants to be the BEST big brother that he can be

Then Gary waddles over bc he couldn’t find Ash and Gary’s suppose to stick by Ash’s side to make sure the younger boy doesn’t get hurt

Raihan would start to panic even more bc there’s TWO babies now

But Leon would be ecstatic because there’s T W O BABIES NOW

HHH SO THEN COUSIN LEON BECOMES A THING

BUT ITS A SHORT THING BC ASH HAS TK GO BACK HOME AND HE DOESNT SEE LEON ANYMORE

but then he comes back with Gou in tow and the first part of the HC happens and then he sees Leon again

And everyone just watches Leon gush’s about how Ash and Gary were so cute as toddlers and then Ash recalls and just screams “COUSIN L!!!!” Because as a Bby he couldn’t pronounce Leon’s full name

And Hop is like “w h a t”

BUT ALSO IMAGINE NEWLY GRANTED GYM LEADER PIERS BEING BROUGHT OVER TO OPALS HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS BECAUSE HIS FAMILY IS S H I T AND HE MEETS ASH AND GARY

DELIA KINDA SUBCONSCIOUSLY BECOMES A MOM TO PEIRS DURING THAG MONTH AND ASH IS LIKE

“Y A S ANOTHER SIBLING!!!!!”

And then Piers gets abducted every year until Delia and Ash stop showing up bc their busy with work/traveling

Until, again, Ash comes back with Gou in tow and Gary gets guilted to come up to Galar

And he sees Piers and just gives the man a cheeky smile and then sees Marnie kinda hiding behind Piers and thinks “Ah yes, new sibling #5,437”

And Marnie latches on faster to Ash than Piers has seen her ever do to anyone else bc she’s been grown up on the wild things Ash would get Piers and another boy into before he stopped coming back to Galar every winter

Bede also gains Brotherly Love bc his family kicked him out for being trans and Ash was having NONE OF THAT bc he’s trans himself

I’m thinking about having Ash and Gary together since this AU is kinda like my AM!AU but not really

Still debating on that

But no My favorite part has to be the competition between all the League officials, except Rose bc he’s an asshole, to get the best seasonal themed picture/video with the trio bc OF COURSE Gou is immediately adopted into the family and becomes Ash’s little sibling

Even people like Allister and Bae get into it

Like there’s a picture Melony took for Allister that had Ash lofting the boy up so he could place the star on the small Christmas tree at their gym lobby with Gou and Gary helping to place other decorations on it

Or Bae’s selfie of the Trio with her together with a snowman that looks like a certain Galar Champion, stolen cape and all

Gou fears for a while that they were all just being awkwardly nice about it until Kabu find them out at night behind Opals mansion they were staying at and gently nudges the truth towards them that they actually LIKE having Gou with them and participating with their family shenanigans and other shit and that they ARE family now because do you honestly think Delia is going to let go of you know? Because she sure as hell hasn’t let go of Kahuna Nanu in Alola

God when Ash brings all his friends who don’t have Good Families over it becomes even more Chaotic

Opals like “WHAT DO YOU M E A N YOU NEVER BAKED COOKIES UNTIL THREE IN THE MORNING?????”

And Lillie and Melony talk about ice types over a cup of hot coco why Allister, Bae, and a shit ton of other people are loosing their mind over Silvally because it can change TYPING W T F GLADION

and Ash is like “oh it’s Silvally!” And Gary would be intrigued but Ash literally shares EVERYTHING with him so he can meet the Pokémon another time when Gladion isn’t so bombarded by people bc the blonde was so used to people in Alola who are used to seeing Silvally that he forgot Alola is definitely not like everywhere else

Hhh Serena, May, Dawn, Zoey, and a bunch of other girls talking with Opal, Oleana, and other female League members about fashion and the younger girls find out that the Women watch their performances religiously bc Ash flippantly said something and that got them interested now they can’t stop watch them

IRIS AND RAIHAN DUKING IT OUT ON THE BATTLE FEILD BC IRIS SAID HER DEAGONITE IS STRONGER AND BETTER THAN RAIHANS FLYGON AND HES LIKE “B E T YOU TINER FUCKER!!!!”

RAIHAN DUKING IT OUT WITH DRAYDEN, because he’s still cousins with Delia in this AU, AND W I N N I N G

So it’s canon, from the new Pokémon game app, that Iris is Leon and Hops cousin

So now Leon just rounds on Ash and is so confused bc Iris talked about this one boy name Ash with a Pikachu who acts like such a kid over face time but Leon didn’t make the connection it was THIS Ash she was traveling with

Hhh snuggle piles in the living room after a fun day outside building forts and what not

Like Ash is dead center in the kids pile bc he’s a kid at heart and Gary’s legs are thrown over his shoulder a bc Ash is in a blanket fort/nest with the other younger kids while Gary is pressed between Delia and Daisy

Opal is curled with Serena bc she’s currently getting deets in the fairy world in Kalos

PROFESSOR OAK TALKING TO MELONY ABOUT ICE TYPES BC HE USED TO BE AN ICE TYPE TRAINER BEFORE COMING KANTOS PROFESSOR

All the younger trainers are so focused on the movies as the adults just talk quietly in the background

And Gou is laying over Ash’s lap while on their phone and Ash doesn’t say anything even though his legs are falling asleep

Idk I’m gonna have Lance as Delia’s brother in this AU

But that doe NOT stop him from acting like Ash’s uncle because Ash ripped Lances two titles out from under him in three years

Leon has been Champion for 20-something years instead of the in game 10 Years

So that it could be plausible that Trainer!Leon and Bby!Ash/Gary could meet each other

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inprisonedshadow · 4 years

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I had been waiting a really long time to draw something like this and I finally got around to it! This is Gardevoir with Marnie’s hair style/colors/outfit! Best poke and goth girl. This was also my first time using a program to color my drawing. @toongirl007was helping and offering me ideas! The process was also streamed on my twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/inprisonedshadow . I will be using this on my stream layout when sword and shield gets released! I also have some similar ideas I want to make as well. Like gardevoir and bae.

#gardevoir art #pokemon #marnie #pokemon marnie #gardevor fusion #twitchart #inprisonedshadow

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gardinerhouse-blog · 7 years

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Senior Series: Alex Pt. 1

Alex Miller uses she/her pronouns. She was born in Midland, TX, but has lived in the Houston, TX area, Moscow, Russia, and Cambridge, England, so who knows where she’s from.

What is your major and how did you pick it?

My major is East Asian Studies, and I knew that I wanted to major in it even before coming to Smith—that’s actually one of the reasons I picked Smith, is that this major was available. I started studying Japanese my freshman year of high school, and I knew I wanted to continue with that, but I also wanted to take history classes more than literature classes so I knew that an East Asian Languages & Literatures major was not for me. One of my favorite things about the EAS major is that it’s multi-disciplinary, so there are a lot of cross-listed courses. You can take art history classes, history classes, anthropology classes, government classes, and they can all count towards the major.

Where did you study abroad, and what was that like?

I studied abroad in Kyoto, Japan with the Associated Kyoto Program for my junior year. It was pretty amazing and I had a lot of incredible experiences, thanks to my wonderful host family. The first month was really tough, though, I’m not going to lie! I thought I knew what I was getting myself into, but it turned out I had no clue—my host family was a lot bigger, more lively, and initially overwhelming, than I had been led to expect from the paper from my program telling me who I was going to be living with.

But by the time I got to the end of that first month, I was like “well, if I could handle all that, I can definitely handle the rest of the year.” And I ended up having a really great time. I went to a bunch of rock concerts with my host family and with my friends, and I traveled a lot with my host family, and also with friends. My host mom bought flowers every couple of weeks so we could arrange them together, and we watched music programs on TV together. My friends and I hung out in Kyoto a lot, did a lot of karaoke, and frequented this giant coffee shop with literally hundreds of different parfaits available.

AKP actually provides a significant amount of financial support, from paying for our monthly transportation passes to and from school, to giving us a lunch stipend, to the monthly “cultural activities grant.” All of that allowed me to do more than I probably would have if all that was available to me was my own money. The program also had field trips and events that ensured we got to visit some cool and important places, and try out new things.

Honestly, though, the reason I had such an amazing time studying abroad was my host family. They were all amazing and kind and welcoming, and my host mom and I still message each other. She sends me pictures of her grand-kids every time we talk, and likes to check that I’m not too stressed and am taking time to enjoy myself in college.

I sort of intermittently kept a blog while I was abroad. You can see it here: http://jyakyoto1516.tumblr.com/ and you can also ask me questions through there if you want to!

Have you been involved in any extracurriculars or campus jobs at Smith? Which have been most rewarding to you, and why?

Fall semester of first year, I signed up for a bunch of clubs I never went to, but then in the spring semester I started doing a radio show with my friend Suwei because two of our other friends, Meghan and Siobhan, were having so much fun with their radio show. Sophomore year, I had radio shows both semesters, and I was also an SAA (Student Academic Advisor) for Gardiner, and a liaison for the East Asian Studies department. Junior year I was abroad, and then this year I’ve had a radio show both semesters, I’m the head of the HSECs (House Social Events Coordinators) in Gardiner, I’m a student editor for Global Impressions magazine, and for the spring semester I’ve also been our Social Media Chair.

As for which of these has been most rewarding, I would say all my positions with Gardiner House, and then also being a WOZQ DJ.

Being an SAA my sophomore year I was able to help out incoming first years with figuring out life at Smith, and Bae and I planned some fun events to help build house community—like big-little bonding with silly camp games, including a mummy-making contest, and Floor Wars, complete with a banana-eating contest and crab soccer.

As an HSEC, I’ve continued to create events to try to facilitate the creation of house community and encourage bonds across class years in the house. I’ve worked with five really wonderful firsties to make sure events like Fetish (our fall semester party that usually happens around Halloween), Yule Ball, and March Masquerade have gone smoothly and been special and fun for our housemates. I’ve also organized some smaller events, like the Gardiner Olympics (Floor Wars, but re-branded), a karaoke night, and some movie nights and stuff.

As Social Media Chair I’ve been most focused on starting this blog and creating content for it, and that’s been really fun. I get to learn a lot about my housemates as I interview them for the podcast, or put their interview answers together for a text-post. Making the videos and podcasts takes a lot of time, but I’m also learning some cool skills as I do.

And then lastly, doing radio shows. This is honestly just so much fun. I’ve co-DJed with friends and also DJ-ed alone, and either way, it’s great. WOZQ the organization itself is pretty disorganized and this is what best sums up my reaction to them: -__- But! Every week, I make a two-hour playlist of music I like, and then I get to go down to the booth and play my music over the airwaves to whoever’s listening while I blast it through very nice speakers for myself. A+.

Is there a Smith event, either in the house particularly or on the campus as a whole, that you think is really special and wish more people knew about?

Every spring, Smith has its own Sci-fi/Fantasy convention called ConBust. My first couple years here I kind of just assumed it would be pathetic and not worth the money to go, so I ignored it. And then senior year I saw one of their posts on Facebook and so I followed the link to their schedule of events and I was like “…why…why did I not look at this before?”

It is a small con, but that means you really get to talk to the panelists, and they bring in really cool people. There were two freelance manga translators there this year who did a lot to help put me in touch with people in the industry with the power to hire me if I was interested in pursuing a career as an manga editor. There were a bunch of authors and editors, an animator from Cartoon Network, cartoonists, the guy who created the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones, and more. There are weapons demonstrations, there’s food, an artist alley, people in cosplay (and not). If you love sci-fi/fantasy, this is an amazing event. I went to some really interesting talks, like the one on Creepypasta, and some fascinating panels that dealt a lot with how we create sci-fi/fantasy worlds, so there was one on making magic systems, another on interstellar governments. And then there were also panels that were about examining how we consume and interact with things, like the panel on fandom and criticism, and another on videogames as literature.

Also, if you’re at all interested in writing sci-fi/fantasy, OMG GO. I got so much advice and learned a lot, not just about world-building and editing, but also how the publishing industry works and what different routes are available to get your work out there, and what the pros and cons of each are.

I went with a couple friends and I honestly spent pretty much my entire weekend at ConBust. I got way more out of it than the $15 I spent for my weekend pass.

What have been your favorite courses at Smith and why?

ENG 296: Advanced Fiction Writing: I’ve taken this class twice, once with Emily Barton in the spring of my sophomore year, and this spring with Ruth Ozeki. And both times it has been wonderful. Ruth Ozeki is amazing. (I also really enjoyed ENG 206: Intermediate Fiction Writing with David Maine). I love creative writing, so it’s great to have classes that force me to prioritize my writing and work on it throughout the busy school year. I can really see my progress as a writer when I look back through stories that I’ve written and revisions I’ve done for these classes, which makes me proud. These are workshop-style classes, and so you get lots of feedback on your work, both from the professor (always a published author), and from your classmates. I also definitely learned how to give more constructive feedback and criticism, and how to take it. A+, 10/10, would take again, and in fact, did.

HST 217: WWII in East Asia: History and Memory: I took this class second semester first year with my major advisor, Professor Marnie Anderson. Every class I’ve taken with her has been amazing, because she’s a great professor—really knowledgeable and understanding, and also organized. She gets the necessary information across in her lectures, which are usually pretty engaging, and she’s really good at facilitating and supporting discussion in class.

For this particular class, we focused on certain big events from WWII in East Asia, like the issue of the comfort women, the atomic bombings of Japan, war propaganda in the US and Japan, and the Nanjing Massacre. We examined these issues from multiple perspectives, and it was truly fascinating to see not only how different countries remember things very differently, but also how historical memory changes over time within the same country. It was a really fascinating, thought-provoking class, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Digital Media Literacy 2017: This was actually a J-term class I took this year and it was one of the best classes I’ve ever taken at Smith, no joke. It’s a fairly intense class, and we all learned so much. I had zero digital media experience going in, and I came out knowing the basics of Photoshop, how to use a DSLR camera, how to scout a location for audio and video recording, how to set up light-kits and microphones for a video shoot, how to capture audio and video, and then how to edit my footage in Premiere Pro. We learned about copyright, too, and how to do some basic things in Motion5 to make animations. Am I perfect, now? No. But I can do things I had literally no clue how to do before I took this class, and I’m building on those skills as Social Media Chair for Gardiner.

You can see some more stuff about the course, including examples of the work we did, here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/Uw4HSPPAYTV1d/

Also, here’s a video I made for the class! I had no clue how to do things like this before I took DML, and by the end of the 2 weeks, I was able to produce this, so that’s pretty impressive! (Thank you to Siobhan for letting me interview you all the time lol)

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EAS 210: Culture and Diplomacy in Asia: I took this class with Professor Dennis Yasutomo and it was amazing. First of all, Professor Yasutomo is one of the best professors I have encountered during my college career. He really understands what it’s like to be a student—for this class we didn’t have to buy a single book, he gave us printouts and links to articles on Moodle, because he said he had always hated it when professors made him buy tone of books to read one or two chapters out of, so he wasn’t going to do that to us.

For this class, we examined different ideas about different countries’ negotiating styles and the various theories behind why they negotiate like that. His lectures were always informative, and discussions were always lively and interesting. And then at the end of class he would be like, “so, to sum up, what I’m hearing from you is that you think XYZ.” And we’d all be like “wait, now that you say it like that, no, hang on. Let me think about this some more.”

#gardiner house #smith college #senior series #sci fi & fantasy #DJ #collegelife #study abroad #Japan #Kyoto #digital media

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netflixonyourcouch · 7 years

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Get Out (2017)

Let’s cut to the chase: J. Cole went platinum with no features Get Out is 100% on RottenTomatoes on opening night. This would be impressive even if it was a Wes Craven movie, but Jordan Peele is sitting in the director’s chair. Best known for the Chappelle-influenced comedy sketch show Key & Peele, Jordan Peele has made a surprisingly good crossover into horror. It’s as if Lil’ Wayne’s rock album Rebirth was actually good, and not filled with songs like Prom Queen.

Overall, I liked it. It has a nice blend of horror and comedy. It’s sometimes hard to get that mix right. If you put too much comedy in a horror movie, it loses its teeth. Thankfully, that’s not the case with Get Out. It’s not quite Scream, but it’s not the godawful Cabin in the Woods either.

Honestly, with as much praise as its gotten so far, I was expecting a modern day classic. This movie is great, pretty entertaining, but also very straightforward. The hypnosis is easy to figure out from the beginning, and the evil family is straight out of cult 101. The sharp comedy is what saves this from being too derivative, and the horror may not be something that keeps you up at night but more along the lines of social commentary, as Jordan Peele is obviously trying to draw parallels to slavery. It also relies too much on jump scares for my taste. Jump scares are an amateur’s trick. Jordan Peele is an amateur horror filmmaker, so I guess we’ll give him a pass.

But the film as a whole - the sum of its parts - is very well put together. I enjoyed all of the performances. The opening scene with Lakeith Stanfield was well done, and his later scenes in the film stand out to me. Catherine Keener is bae, Marnie from Girls does a decent-to-good job, and fake David Cross (I swore this guy was just David Cross with hair) does a pretty good job. But it’s Daniel Kaluuya (aka, that guy from Black Mirror Season 1) who carries the film to me. He seems the most invested in the film’s proceedings and it shows. His sidekick is fucking HILARIOUS too. Camerawise nothing too outstanding. There’s an average camera trick or two (such as seeing through the SLR camera lens, or the nice pan from the beginning when they arrive in the house) there’s lots of closeup shots, nothing more to say. The soundtrack was fantastic, and I immediately took out my phone to Shazam the opening theme. And I also like how all of the bloodshed is delayed til the end of the film, delayed releases like that are always pretty cool to me.

Bottom line is go see it, 100% of critics agree that you should, but don’t go in expecting like, the best movie ever.

#get out #jordan peele #film review

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'Broad City' Made It Respectable to Be a Reckless, Messy Queen

When we first dropped in on the lives of Ilana Wexler and Abbi Abrams back in the 2014 pilot of Broad City, the then-22-and-26-year-olds, respectively, were drumming on buckets in Madison Square Park, trying to outshine a breakdancer to make enough money for Lil Wayne tickets. When that didn’t work, they ducked behind an alley to smoke a joint. Later, still on the hunt for concert money, they answer an online ad for housecleaners and get bamboozled by a pervy man (played by Fred Armisen) who ends up in a diaper pretending to be a baby and refuses to pay. In the end, the besties turn it all around by stealing his fur coats and wearing them while getting wasted on a stoop, proclaiming their baller street sesh to be much better than any Weezy concert.

Looking back, there couldn’t have been any other opening to a show that was the first to truly rep for scrappy, silly, carefree young women, and to genuinely suggest that they’re doing life their way, whether that's right or wrong. Now that the show just wrapped its fifth and final season on Thursday, it’s a great time to reflect on why Broad City was such a breath of fresh air to so many.

Premiering just two years before Broad City, Girls was—at the time—the biggest show on TV portraying a group of deeply messy twentysomethings trying to build a life in New York. But while Girls expertly conveyed the whirling existentialism of ‘adulting,’ its four central characters’ immaturity was framed cynically rather than mined as pure comedic gold. Hannah Horvath’s self-centeredness or Marnie Michaels’s controlling perfectionism were traits anyone rooting for them wished they’d get over. And the character with the most prominent wild streak, Jessa Johansson, ended up having some serious issues with self-sabotage and backstabbing, which barely gave viewers time to revel in her dry sense of humor and free-spiritedness.

But when Abbi and Ilana stepped in, their reckless, freewheeling lifestyle wasn’t framed as something that needed to change—it was the name of the game, even aspirational.

Broad City also stands out in the long tradition of shows about *women in the city* because pioneering sitcoms from the 90s and 2000s centered female leads that largely had their act together—let’s call it, the Bad Bitches Only era. From Living Single ('93–'98) to Friends (‘94–’04), Sex and the City (‘98–’04) and Girlfriends (‘00–’08), this era was full of women with very mature jobs, music-video-worthy apartments, bomb-proof friend groups, and a number of fairytale on-again-off-again relationships that usually culminated in marriage.

But importantly, the few sillier or eccentric characters of that era that are more Abbi and Ilana’s speed were tokenized as class clowns. Friends often played up Phoebe Buffay’s goofy side with airhead lines to make her the butt of jokes, and leaned on her “weirdness” for comedic relief, like the running gag of signature song “Smelly Cat,” performed regularly during her gigs at Central Perk. On Girlfriends, bohemian zen queen Lynn Searcy had a similar role. She was treated like an unserious, hippie-dippie type by her other friends, leading to arguments between her and the grown-’n'-sexy protagonist Joan Clayton (played by Tracee Ellis Ross). These characters didn’t have the same high-powered careers or long, winding love stories that their more “mature” friends did, which made their lifestyles seem less worthy of admiration, and, somehow, less womanly.

With Broad City, Abbi and Ilana are an absurd, creative, off-the-rails duo—but you respect them for it. You want to get in there and wild out with them. In the show, young women can play, fail, and follow their true desires with no shame. Whether it’s pretending to play a concert in a drum store or ogling street basketball players through a fence, it starts to feel like they may actually be making the right moves. And perhaps most importantly, their world doesn’t come crashing down because of it. They live very full, nearly uninhibited lives with close friends and family; loving romantic partners (including Ilana’s longterm dentist bae Lincoln Rice, played by Hannibal Buress); and they have spikes of career success, like Ilana’s stint as a “corporate overlord” of the interns at Deals Deals Deals! in the second episode of season two. Their setbacks at work or in their love life take a backseat to the main focus on the adventures in their friendship.

Broad City did away with the naive airhead trope, proving that female-led, goofball comedy can also be intellectual. As political junkies in real life, Glazer and Jacobson’s characters weave political facts and social justice lingo into their witty exchanges. The show uses exaggerated humor to cleverly comment on serious issues, like addressing women’s Trump-era depression by sending Ilana to a magical sex therapist who pinpoints the political climate’s toll on her body. And Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the show during her 2016 presidential campaign was a big flex, too (another point for the wild ones!). The show’s meta premise—in which the actresses portray characters with their own first names, and very similar personalities to themselves—also allows the success of their IRL careers to serve as proof that women like them have real value in this world. The show questions why women should strive to fit into mainstream molds in society at all when Abbi and Ilana are getting along just fine following their wackiest whims.

But in its final season, the show seriously grappled with what it looks like for the queens of adult “immaturity” to finally grow up. Amid their business-as-usual shenanigans, Ilana buckles down to apply to grad school programs for psychology and consciously uncouples with Lincoln (teardrop), while Abbi dates an older female doctor and makes the tough choice to leave her city adventures behind for art school in Boulder, Colorado. There are moments in the final season when they start to feel insecure about their personalities, like when Abbi gets dumped by her doctor bae for being too childish and tries to dress like a 60s housewife to compensate. But by the time they realize their days together are numbered, they’re back on the adventure wave, bringing the plot full circle to missing yet another Lil Wayne concert.

The show’s resolution, which shows that they can take the next big steps in their lives while keeping their wild personalities on and popping, stays true to what Broad City contributed to our culture. There’s much more for women to strive for now than being marriage material, or even “adulting” in the Type A sense of the word. Women that wear dog hoodies, engage in some pegging, goof off, or do all the hallucinogens are no less womanly or capable of success. They made the case that what’s worth striving for in life is sticking close to the people and the places that let you bring all of yourself to the table.

As hard as it was for the two women to find the words to say goodbye to each other throughout the show’s finale, Abbi hit the nail on the head in their last moment, saying, “I don’t even feel like I was alive before I met you. You taught me how to do it, dude.” Ilana paused, “Well, you’re alive as hell now.”

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'Broad City' Made It Respectable to Be a Reckless, Messy Queen

But when Abbi and Ilana stepped in, their reckless, freewheeling lifestyle wasn’t framed as something that needed to change—it was the name of the game, even aspirational.

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The 40 Halloweeniest Halloween Movies For Your Next ~Spooky~ Night-In

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The 40 Halloweeniest Halloween Movies For Your Next ~Spooky~ Night-In

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The best thing about Halloween isn’t the candy. It’s cozying up to your pillow (or bae, or your pup, or your BFF) with candy to watch a scary movie, be it a bloody extravaganza or an animated classic from your childhood. But let’s face it: the list of excellent, high quality Halloween movies out there can be a tad overwhelming. (Without cheating, do you know how many Paranormal Activity films exist?) Below, in no particular order, a list of some of the best scare fests to ever grace the silver screen:

1. The Shining (1980)

When you think of Halloween, do you immediately see Jack Nicholson’s face from The Shining? Same, along with other images from the 1980 film based on Stephen King’s classic: the Grady daughters, the river of blood spilling out of the elevator doors, and little Danny’s tricycle, to name a few. If you have time and energy to spare after watching this Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, do check out Room 237, the 2012 documentary about different interpretations of The Shining. It’s basically a masterclass on the film with all your pals and—*pushes glasses up*—theories.

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2. The Exorcist (1973)

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There’s nothing scarier than a horror film from the ‘70s, and The Exorcist is a prime example of the type of scare that makes you sleep with the lights on for at least two weeks. Fun fact: The Exorcist was the first horror movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1974, but lost out to the heist film The Sting. To date, only one horror film has won Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs.

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3. Halloween (1978)

In 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis made her feature film debut as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter’s slasher flick about an asylum escapee who was originally committed for the murder of his sister. Turns out, Laurie, a young woman he stalks, is his other sister. And turns out, this film is just as scary even if you’ve seen it 30 times. Good luck trying to get Carpenter’s theme song out of your head.

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4. Poltergeist (1982)

The most important lesson you’ll get from watching Poltergeist is to turn off your TV and run as soon as the screen fills with static. That, and always, always, check if the land you live on used to be a cemetery.

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5. Psycho (1960)

Long before Jamie Lee Curtis met Michael Myers, her mother Janet Leigh was the face of horror after starring in the Alfred Hitchcock movie that probably inspired folks to skip taking showers in 1960s.

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6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

This Wes Craven classic is a winner for several reasons: it makes you never want to hit the dream phase of sleep; you’ll be glad to have a cellphone in 2018; Johnny Depp is in it for a hot minute (it was his first film).

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7. Hocus Pocus (1993)

Halloween movies need not be dark, bloody, and nightmare inducing. Leading the comedy horror pack are the Sanderson sisters, played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, who are resurrected by a virgin in present-day Salem, unleashing all sorts of mayhem and one of the earliest appearances by actor Doug Jones (as Winnie’s sewed up ex), who most recently appeared as the fish man in The Shape of Water.

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8. Beetlejuice (1988)

Raise your hand if you’ve ever worn a Beetlejuice-inspired costume for Halloween or, more importantly, dressed up as Winona Ryder’s Lydia, aka the goth girl, from the film.

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9. Scream (1996)

This movie had everything: the genius of Wes Craven, the words of Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson, and a young Skeet Ulrich licking “pig’s blood” while Neve Campbell looked on in disgust. The film, which also starred Drew Barrymore and then-married couple Courtney Cox and David Arquette, spawned three more sequels, along with the spoof franchise, Scary Movie.

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10. Scary Movie (2000)

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The scary films of the mid to late ‘90s, namely the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer franchises, inspired Keenan Ivory Wayans to make Scary Movie, starring Anna Faris in one of her first films. The kills are over-the-top while the jokes are dirty and wrong, but the film still grossed $278 million worldwide. FWIW, that’s more than Scream’s box office performance ($173 million worldwide).

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11. Practical Magic (1998)

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are sisters Sally and Gillian, who try to use their powers (yes, they’re witches) to undo a family curse that results in any significant other that comes into their lives to drop dead. Come for all the magic, stay for Stockard Channing’s commanding screen presence.

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12. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Not long after the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town concludes he’s simply bored with the annual celebrations related to the blessed day that is Halloween, he stumbles into Christmas Town and immediately becomes infatuated, so much that he tries to recreate the holiday at home.

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13. The Addams Family (1991)

This dark comedy is satisfying for several reasons, including the fact that Angelica Huston was born to play Addams family matriarch Morticia Addams. (Seriously, can you picture anyone else in Morticia’s long black dress, blood red lipstick, and deadly stare downs?) The film is extra fun if you do any of the following: clap along to the theme song; wear braids like Christina Ricci’s Wednesday; impersonate Cousin Itt.

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14. Halloweentown (1998)

With the recent discovery that Marnie Piper and Kal (from Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge) are dating IRL, it’s imperative that you (re)watch the first Halloweentown, which made us all question what we’d do if we suddenly found out we were related to witches. This film is best enjoyed with a plate full of cookies—that you’re allowed to have, of course.

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15. The Others (2001)

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It’s hard to look away from Nicole Kidman’s powerhouse performance as Grace, a loving and religious mother who tries to protect her children from a photosensitivity disease that keeps them indoors. Who still gets chills upon hearing her daughter Anne say, “Are you mad? I am your daughter”?

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16. Friday the 13th (1980)

Before Jason and his hockey mask haunted your dreams, it was his mother, Mrs. Voorhees, who caused havoc at Camp Crystal Lake in the first installment of the Friday the 13th franchise. Yes, this is the film with a young Kevin Bacon, and no, he doesn’t have much screen time.

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17. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

Much like the other Charlie Brown specials of our youth, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was short, sweet, and full of hope. While Charlie Brown and the other kids head to Violet’s Halloween party in full costume (Charlie’s a ghost, Lucy’s a witch), Linus stays behind to wait for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. If you watched this as a kid and feared that you, too, would end up with rocks while trick-or-treating, you’re not alone.

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18. The Craft (1996)

The thing to do in 1996 after watching Neve Campbell and company in The Craft was get together with your friends to chant “Light as a feather, stiff as a board,” only to find out witchcraft does not run in your blood. Or does it?

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19. Paranormal Activity (2007)

Even if you watch this film in broad daylight with lots of people, snacks, and the volume turned down at its lowest, you’ll still flinch and scream so many times you’ll (1) never want to move houses/apartments, (2) never sleep, (3) never look at baby powder the same way. If you ever have literally nothing else to do and want to have a Paranormal Activity marathon, there are a total of six films in the franchise, including 2015’s Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.

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20. The Host (2006)

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You know what’s scarier than a regular monster? A sea monster in South Korea possibly created by toxic waste dumped by the U.S. military. Such is the creature lurking in The Host, which picks up the second a local snack bar owner’s daughter is abducted by the monster. Warning: you’ll want to avoid any river after watching the film and think twice about dumping mystery chemicals down your sink.

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21. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The film was revolutionary for its time, as it was made of “recovered footage” from three student filmmakers who disappeared while making a documentary about a local legend (the Blair Witch) in the woods in Burkittsville, Maryland. It also left a lot of audience members in a state of motion sickness (blame the “recovered footage”) and pure shock (blame the final shot of the film).

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22. A Quiet Place (2018)

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt put their real-life relationship to the test when he directed himself and Emily in this post-apocalyptic horror film about a family living in silence while monsters with super sensitive hearing hunt humans. The film is so good a sequel has already been ordered for 2020.

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23. Carrie (1976)

Stephen King’s first-ever novel was such a hit that it was made into a film starring Sissy Spacek just two years after the book’s release. Spacek played Carrie White, the 17-year-old telekinetic power possessing outcast who puts an end to a long reign of bullying by her classmates after a bucket of pigs’ blood is dumped on her at prom.

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24. Train to Busan (2016)

South Korean heartthrob Gong Yoo plays a divorced fund manager who tries to survive a zombie apocalypse while on a high-speed train with his young daughter and hundreds of other passengers, including a heroic man and his pregnant wife, a high school baseball team, and a homeless man with a big heart.

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25. Get Out (2017)

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A young man goes and his girlfriend go on a weekend getaway to her parents’ house, only to find out the family’s dirty, horrifying secret. Jordan Peele won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his directorial debut, which starred Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, and Lakeith Stanfield.

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26. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Tim Burton’s imagination blessed the world with the heart of Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp), who’s taken in by an Avon-selling suburban mom after she discovers him in an abandoned mansion. Edward immediately falls for the woman’s daughter Kim (Winona Ryder), and the rest is Kim’s story to tell.

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27. Casper (1995)

Two words: Devon Sawa. If you fell in love with him in the mid-1990s, it was likely due to his ever-so-brief appearance in Casper, in which he melted hearts with the words, “Can I keep you?” Christina Ricci was excellent as Kat as well.

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28. The Conjuring (2013)

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The Conjuring franchise, which most recently spawned The Nun, began in 2013 with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real-life paranormal investigators whose reports led to The Amityville Horror book and related films.

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29. The Ring (2002)

The good thing about watching this film in 2018 is that videotapes pretty much don’t exist anymore. The bad thing is The Ring is still creepy AF and you bet you’ll think twice about answering any phone calls while watching the movie for the 13th time.

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30. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Haley Joel Osment told you he could see dead people, but who would’ve expected to see Kyra the ghost show up as Marissa Cooper on The O.C. just four years later? Bravo to everyone in this film, but especially Mischa Barton, who still gets “Halloween vibes” from her Sixth Sense character.

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31. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

This underrated vampire Western (yep) from director Ana Lily Amirpour is a satisfying black-and-white film for anyone who loves cats, hates men who disrespects women, and has an ear for good music.

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32. Coraline (2009)

Dakota Fanning is the voice of Coraline, a young girl who discovers a secret door to an alternate, darker world after moving with her family from Michigan to Oregon.

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33. Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

This Japanese horror film (which was technically the third installment of the franchise but the first to be released in theaters) inspired multiple sequels and the American remake starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. But let’s face it, you only have time for one horror film from the franchise, so why not spend an afternoon with the ghost of Kayako (because watching it at night is just not recommended).

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34. Hereditary (2018)

Toni Collette and her on-screen family must deal with the aftermath of her mother’s death. The premise sounds simple, that is until more awful stuff starts happening and you as the viewer begin to question what’s real and what’s imagined. If you find yourself thinking about Hereditary and Toni Collette’s brilliant acting days after seeing the film, don’t worry: this is normal. Probably.

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35. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

More over-the-top entertaining than scary, this cult classic stars Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a scientist who lives in a castle and creates a living man with muscles named—you guessed it—Rocky.

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36. American Psycho (2000)

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What makes someone kill? Such is the million dollar question of Mary Harron’s film, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 novel and starring Christian Bale as the wealthy investment banker slash serial killer Patrick Bateman. In case you’ve forgotten, the movie also stars Reese Witherspoon, Justin Theroux, and Justin Theroux’s giant cellphone.

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37. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Mia Farrow is Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who becomes mysteriously pregnant not long after moving to an apartment with her husband. Their neighbors are definitely, maybe part of a cult. Her pregnancy is anything but a walk in the park. And far too many uninvited players are convinced they know what’s best for the unborn child. Sound familiar?

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38. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Leatherface’s kills in this film are not for the faint of heart, but if you think about it, they’re all pretty ridiculous—and not all of them are executed with his famed chainsaw. The group of friends who stumble upon this family of cannibals really shouldn’t have picked up that hitchhiker in the first place. It’s basically the first rule of horror!

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39. Alien (1979)

There aren’t a lot of alien-themed titles in this list, but Sigourney Weaver’s first film as Warrant Officer Ripley is arguably the best in the franchise. Maybe it’s her badass attitude, how she makes holding a gun look effortless, or that cute cat who somehow makes it to the very end.

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40. Twilight (2008)

Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson’s acting has greatly improved since the release of Twilight, but you can’t help but be charmed by everything else this film offered: teen love, hot vampires, and the beginnings of the whole Edward vs Jacob debate.

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Found Family!AU *Christmas Addition*

Because I’m in a hella big Christmas Mood(Tm) and I talked a lot with @hiddenbyfaeries over this.

Hi yes, Gym Leader Opal is now Ash’s Great Aunt on Giovanni’s side

And also Reluctant Great Uncle Kabu is a thing as well

So like imagine little bby Ash and Gary flying to Galar with Daisy and Delia to see Graunty Opal to make a bunch of deserts for the other Galar league officials

And Grunkle Kabu gets pulled into the shenanigans and there’s so many pictures of all the younger kids covered in flour while a younger Opal and Kabu stand on the outer side of the group smiling and laughing

even tho Rose wasn’t a chairman just yet

He was shadowing the older head Chairman who Ash and Gary absolutely adored but Ash hated Rose with a passion

But just imagine Ash leaving for his journies and both he and Gary couldn’t help make cookies but they would face time Graunty Opal and Grunkle Kabu the day of Christmas together if the two boys could

But then Ash and Gou get sent to Galar for some mission or something and Opal and Kabu find out and kinda abduct the two for baking time

And Opal does the grandma thing where they guilt trip poor Gary into coming down

And THEN Bede joins in

And suddenly there’s posts from the gym leaders and Bedes acc

And everyone is like “wait WHAT!?”

Because no one knew that Opal and Kabu even had an inkling of any other family members

besides Opal having Bede but their not even technically family and a lot of people just thought that Opal was even around Bede just to train the kid enough so that the boy could take over her gym

But then everyone realize’s its fucking Champion Ash Ketchum and most of the worlds new found favorite Professor Gary Oak

Bede just brags about meeting Ash and Gary but quickly gets embarrassed because both Opal and Kabu coo over them and take a shit time of pictures to post on their rarely used Twitter and Pokegram

So Rose comes down with Leon, and Hop who was tagging along with his older brother, and Oleana bc they were Christmas shopping for their respected families together

So the. Leon gets Piers and Marnie to come as well

And all three kids kinda freak out bc there’s Leon but also ASH KETCHUM and GARY OAK

But Ash and Gary are both glaring daggers and Rose who does them back bc he still remembers the twerps after ten years still

But then Raihan and the younger Trainers got into this little fight on who can take the best Christmas picture with Ash, Gary, and Gou

And then it becomes this kind of... contest???

Where all the Gym leaders + plus the kids would try and get the most Christmas themed picture with Ash, Gary, and Gou

Even Oleana gets in it a little with a picture here and there but it’s usually with just a single person out of the trio

Like a picture of Oleana and Gary out and about with some coffee/got chocolate and they look like their Christmas shopping

A picture with Ash and her looking cute in matching Christmas sweaters by an outside fire place that looks like it’s back behind Kabu’s house

And surprisingly a picture of Her and Gou sharing a large scarf eating candy canes while watching Gary tripping over his feet on an ice rink while Ash laughed while helping him up

But like there’s a picture Leon posts on his Twitter of The trio with the little ones looking for a Christmas tree with an added video of Ash and Gary calling each other thots and other names while disagreeing with what tree they should get while Gou and the kids are laughing in the back ground.

Raihan post a picture with Melony teaching Gary and Alister how to sled down a hill properly while Ash, Gou, and Bae pelt each other with snowballs at the bottom

Nessa posts a picture with the gang + the other gym leader + Marnie and Sonia showing off their nails that were all Christmas themed decorated

And everyone else is just e a t I n g this up

And it hits the national news and every one who knows Ash and Gary are just laughing

Then Ash’s Legendary™️ bs starts uo

So Opal post pictures and videos of the Trio playing in the snow with the Legendary Doggo’s and it’s the most like/shared/retweeted post she ever had

Opal and Kabu win though because they posted a side by side picture of the four + Daisy during their first Christmas baking session and the newest picture of the four + Gou

And Daisy ReTweets with the words “I’VE BEEN REPLACED!!!!” But it’s all in good humor

Delia finds all the pictures taken while the three are up in Galar and prints them all out and past’s them in multiple scrap books with older pictures that were taken in some places during past Christmas and that would be Opals and Kabus New Years present when Delia could finally come back up there to celebrate with everyone else

But then there’s pictures of Ash and Gary teaching Gou and the three younger trainers how to make perfect cookies and other deserts

And it’s posted to Ash’s AND Gary’s account with the words:

“Teaching the new family generation how to make the best Christmas desserts! ❤️”

And their all covered in frosting, flour, other cooking stuff

And just Christmas fluff that gives everyone more insight into Ash’s and Gary’s life

God now I can imagine Ash bringing like a shit ton of his friends who don’t have good families to a party a few days before Christmas and both Opal and Kabu just adopts them all

Opal teaching Gladion, Ritchie, and Cilan how to make traditional Christmas cakes while Kabu teaches Lillie, Alain, and a few others how to properly decorate and wrap Christmas presents

ALL OUT SNOWBALL WAR!!!!

It happens exactly at 12 in the morning

Ash comes bounding down the halls with the younger trainers (Max, Bonnie, Marnie, Bede, Hop, and a few more people) from outside with the war cry of “MERRY CHRISTMAS FUCKERS!!!!”

They bust into the rooms of people who get worked up the easiest and p e l t them in snowballs

Everyone gets into this since they were all staying and Opals mansion because it’s the only resident that could hold them all

Kabu is the only one out of the very older part of the family to get into the fight

Agatha, Delia, and Opal choose not to be apart in favor of recording and taking a lot of pictures

But everyone’s dressed I. Their winter gear and PJ’s screaming and having so much fun

That the war last HOURS until everyone’s near freezing to death

Then they would all go back and change into warmer Pajamas and the three women who stayed out would disperse hot chocolate and drinks with a bit of alcohol to the older trainers and parents/siblings who can drink

Ash and Gary would be determined that Opal and Kabu go first on opening their presents under the massive 20 something-foot tree

But that’s on the actual Christmas Day

Before that Opal, Kabu, and Melony would drag the trio and the younger trainers (like Alister, Bonnie, Max, the Alola crew and a few more kids) to go see the giant 40 foot tree in the town square near Opals gym light up

Then they would split up and go to different kinds of shops and meet back up for dinner somewhere

HHH JUST FAMILY FLUFF

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