#ivan truffle

[7-oaks]

A passing comment during our first outdoor movie night.

[Image ID: A comic on a light grey background made up of drawings and screenshots from the film Truffle Hunters. The images on screen are of elderly men and their dogs, mostly in the woods. First, two people in a backyard on either side of a small projector. A fire blazes behind them, casting orange light onto the screen. The character on the left ponders "Hmmm..." Second, in a closeup, the person on the right asks "What are you thinking about?" The figure on the left responds "I don't know..." Third, an air conditioning unit whirs loudly from behind the projector. Fourth, a small dog barks "Arf!" from the below the screen. Fifth, a car drives past the screen with the "vaROOM" sound effect written above it. Sixth, a log is thrown onto the fireplace, which emits a light orange glow onto the film. Seventh, the projector stands crooked on a small block. The person on the left says from out of frame, "Just that..." Seventh, the projector light shines in the night sky with white circles for stars scattered around it. In white text, the person speaking continues "This is the only time we'll see this movie in this way. You know?" . /.End ID]

#connors comics #movies #truffle hunters #documentary #comic #ivan brunetti #screening #personal comic #graphic novel

[elfgarlic]

made good food today: cheesy tomato sauce beans on toast, green smoothie with ginger, and linguine with cultured butter, truffle honey, and juniper salt. washed down with plenty of ivan chai and the last of my berry kombucha

#food #drinks #shadow.txt

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival

BY ROBYN DIXON AND CATHERINE BELTON

President Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as a new czar like Peter the Great or Ivan III, the 15th-century grand prince known as the “gatherer of the Russian lands.” But Putin’s year-long war in Ukraine has failed so far to secure the lands he aims to seize, and in Russia, there is fear that he is leading his nation into a dark period of strife and stagnation — or worse.

Some in the elite also say the Russian leader now desperately needs a military victory to ensure his own survival. “In Russia, loyalty does not exist,” one Russian billionaire said.

Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began with hubris and a zeal to reshape the world order. But even as he suffered repeated military defeats — diminishing his stature globally and staining him with allegations of atrocities being committed by his troops — Putin has tightened his authoritarian grip at home, using the war to destroy any opposition and to engineer a closed, paranoid society hostile to liberals, hipsters, LGBTQ people, and, especially, Western-style freedom and democracy.

The Russian president’s squadrons of cheerleaders swear he “simply cannot lose” in Ukraine, thanks to Russia’s vast energy, wealth, nuclear weapons and sheer number of soldiers it can throw onto the battlefield. These supporters see Putin rising supreme from Ukraine’s ashes to lead a swaggering nation defined by its repudiation of the West — a bigger, more powerful version of Iran.

But business executives and state officials say Putin’s own position at the top could prove precarious as doubts over his tactics grow among the elite. For many of them, Putin’s gambit has unwound 30 years of progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin’s vision of Russia horrifies many oligarchs and state officials, who confide that the war has been a catastrophic error that has failed in every goal. But they remain paralyzed, fearful and publicly silent.

“Among the elite, though they understand it was a mistake, they still fear to do anything themselves,” said the only Russian diplomat to publicly quit office over the war, Boris Bondarev, formerly brd at Russia’s U.N. mission in Geneva. “Because they have gotten used to Putin deciding everything.”

Some are sure that Putin can maintain his hold on power without a victory, as long as he keeps the war going and wears down Western resolve and weapons supplies. For anyone in the elite to act, Bondarev said, “there needs to be an understanding that Putin is leading the country to total collapse. While Putin is still bombing and attacking, people think the situation is not so bad. There needs to be a full military loss, and only then will people understand they need to do something.”

What all camps seem to agree on is that Putin shows no willingness to give up. As Russia’s battlefield position deteriorated in recent months, he escalated repeatedly, shuffling his commanders, unleashing brutal airstrikes on civilian infrastructure and threatening to use nuclear weapons.

Now, with his troops reinforced by conscripts and convicts and poised to launch new offensives, the 70-year-old Russian leader needs a win to maintain his own credibility. “Putin needs some success to demonstrate to society that he is still very successful,” a senior Ukrainian security official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss politically sensitive issues.

MOSCOW’S GLITTERING INDIFFERENCE

As the casualties mount in Ukraine, filling graveyards across Russia’s provinces, Moscow’s glittering facade conveys a hedonistic, indifferent city. Its restaurants and cafes are crammed with glamorous young patrons sporting European designer wear, taking selfies on the latest iPhones, and ordering truffle pizza or duck confit to be washed down with trendy cocktails.

But beneath, Putin is creating a militarized, nationalistic society, fed on propaganda and obsessed with an “existential” forever war against the United States and NATO. So far, no one in officialdom has had the nerve to object — not publicly, at least.

“Whatever he says, it’s taken like this,” the editor in chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Konstantin Remchukov, said with a loud snap of his fingers.

RUSSIANS ABANDON WARTIME RUSSIA IN HISTORIC EXODUS

Since Putin rose to the presidency in 2000, his legitimacy has been brd on his popularity and stature among the elite, buttressed by his ability to instill fear by stripping some of their assets and throwing others into prison. The defeats in Ukraine have dented him.

The president seems forever haunted by the moment when as a young KGB officer serving in Dresden, the Soviet Union “gave up its position in Europe” as the Berlin Wall collapsed. And his pursuit of the empire lost with the subsequent Soviet collapse is throwing his country back into a gray, repressive and isolated past. For Putin, his efforts are a quest to right what he has perceived as historical wrongs. In his near-maniacal revisionist view, Ukraine has always belonged to Russia.

But even if Putin somehow forces Ukraine into capitulating and ceding occupied territory, those in the elite who lean toward a more liberal society stand to lose the most. Punitive Western economic sanctions are likely to remain in place, and some oligarchs undoubtedly would be pressed to pay to rebuild Russia’s new lands. Some analysts predict a sweeping purge of oligarchs and others deemed insufficiently patriotic.

Already, there are shocking glimpses of Putin’s new Russia: A couple in a Krasnodar restaurant were arrested, handcuffed and forced to the floor after being denounced to the police by an eavesdropper who heard them quietly bemoaning the war.

An older woman on a bus was dragged from her seat, thrown to the floor and roughly pushed out the door by passengers because she called Russia an empire that sends men to fight in cheap rubber boots.

Videos purportedly show members of the Kremlin-approved but technically illegal mercenary Wagner Group executing “traitors” in beatings with a sledgehammer.

Former central bank official Alexandra Prokopenko described an atmosphere in which officials fear prison amid intimidation by the security services.

“It is a concern for every member of the Russian elite,” said Prokopenko, who is in exile in the West. “It’s a question of survival for high-ranked, mid-ranked officials who all remained in Russia. People are quite terrified about their safety now.” She said former colleagues still at the bank told her they saw “no good exit for Russia right now.”

TWO-PRONGED BACKLASH

Increasingly isolated, Putin faces growing resentment from hawkish nationalists who say he should have acted more radically to seize Kyiv and from a liberal-leaning faction that thinks the war is a grave error. He has tightened his inner circle to a few hard-liners and sycophants, ruthlessly eliminated opposition rivals and set up a formidable security apparatus to safeguard against any threat.

Pro-Kremlin analysts see escalation — pumping in more soldiers and ramping up military production — as the path to victory. That appears to fit Putin’s character.

But no one really knows the current military goal or what Putin might consider a victory. Some say he will settle for seizing all of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where Russia began fomenting separatist war in 2014. Others say he has not given up his designs on taking Kyiv and toppling the government.

In September, Ukraine’s first big successful counteroffensive shone a harsh spotlight on Putin’s instincts in a crisis: a bullish doubling-down designed to sever any path to compromise. His illegal claim to annex four Ukrainian territories, despite not controlling them militarily, was a burn-all-bridges tactic meant to draw sharp new red lines on the map of Ukraine.

His speech on the occasion of the supposed annexations, in the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St. George Hall, reached a new hysterical pitch over what he called the West’s “outright Satanism” and its desire to gobble Russia up and destroy its values.

“They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony,” he said. “They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.” He has repeatedly described a quest to establish a multipolar world in which Russia regains its rightful place among the great powers.

DUTCH PROBE IMPLICATES PUTIN IN 2014 DOWNING OF MALAYSIAN PASSENGER JET

Sometimes, Putin sharply rebukes one of his officials about failures, leaving others fearful of public humiliation. He elevates and rewards thuggish figures, such as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and the Wagner founder, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, but swiftly curbs them if they step out of line.

At times, Putin seems oddly out of touch with the realities of his war. Days after pro-war bloggers reported last week that dozens of Russian tanks and many soldiers were lost in a failed attack on Vuhledar involving Russia’s elite 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, Putin boasted to journalists that the “marine infantry is working as it should — right now — fighting heroically.”

Meanwhile, a profound pessimism has settled on the country. Those who believe the war is lost run the gamut from liberals to hard-liners. “It seems it is impossible to win a political or military victory,” one state official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer a candid assessment. “The economy is under huge stress and can’t be long under such a situation.”

PATRIOTIC DEATH CULT

Publicly, Putin has voiced no concern about Russia’s brutal killings of civilians in cities including Bucha, Mariupol and Izyum, while his propaganda machine dismisses news of such atrocities as “fakes.” The International Criminal Court is investigating war crimes in Ukraine, and the European Parliament has called for a special court on Russia’s crime of aggression, the invasion of Ukraine.

But pro-Kremlin analyst Sergei Markov said talk of war crimes prosecutions only stiffened Putin’s resolve.

“What will Putin’s response be? Fighting — and it doesn’t matter what the price will be,” Markov said.

Kremlin image makers convey Putin’s power in staged events where he looks the archetypal dictator — often a lone figure in the distance placing flowers at monuments to past military heroes. His staged appearances with purported ordinary Russians seem scripted and artificial, with participants simpering in nervous awe. The same faces keep appearing in different settings — dressed as soldiers, fishers or churchgoers, raising questions about how many real people the President ever meets.

As the war casualties pile up, Putin and top propagandists extol a fatalistic cult of death, arguing that it is better to die in Russia’s war than in a car accident, from alcoholism or from cancer.

A RUSSIAN MUSICIAN MOUNTS A MODEST ANTIWAR PROTEST AND PAYS THE PRICE

“One day we will all leave this world,” Putin told a group of carefully selected women portrayed as mothers of mobilized soldiers in November, many of them actually pro-Kremlin activists or relatives of officials. “The question is how we lived. With some people, it is unclear whether they live or not. It is unclear why they die, because of vodka or something else. When they are gone, it is hard to say whether they lived or not. Their lives passed without notice.”

But a man who died in war “did not leave his life for nothing,” he said. “His life was important.”

Venerable rights organizations such as Memorial and the Sakharov Center have been forced to close, while respected political analysts, musicians, journalists and former Soviet political prisoners have been declared “foreign agents,” Many have fled or been jailed.

As sanctions slowly bite, prices soar and businesses struggle to adapt, economists and business executives predict a long economic decline amid isolation from Western technology, ideas and value chains.

“The economy has entered a long period of Argentinization,” a second Russian billionaire said. “It will be a long slow degradation. There will be less of everything.”

RUSSIA OUSTS DIRECTOR OF ELITE MUSEUM AS KREMLIN DEMANDS PATRIOTIC ART

Through the war, Putin has profoundly changed Russia, clamping down harder on liberties, prompting hundreds of thousands of Russians to emigrate. In the future, pro-democracy liberals will not be tolerated, analysts say.

“The pro-West opposition will be gone,” Markov said.

“Whoever doesn’t support the special military operation is not part of the people,” he said, using Putin’s term for the war.

But the second Russian billionaire said he was convinced that one day, somehow, the country would become “a normal European nonimperial country” and that his children, who have U.S. passports, would return. “I want them to return to a free Russia, of course,” he said. “To a free and democratic Russia.”

#news #2023 #the washington post #russia #imperial russia #valdimir putin #fuck putin #ukrainian crisis #ukriane #russo ukrainian war #soviet union #european politics #european history #north atlantic treaty organization #Kremlin #Wagner Group #Ramzan Kadyrov #Yevgeniy Prigozhin #International Criminal Court #war crimes #European Parliament #sanctions

[shanemulcahy]

ichigo ichie, a kaiseki restaurant in Cork, Ireland - absolute heavenly food and dining! Took me a while to post these but here are some photos from a meal (menu below) friends and I had back in February 2020, although I forgot to take a photo of dish 7. MENU: Kisaragi 01. Sakizuke/先附 [Amuse-bouche] - (PHOTO 2) Kisetsu no sakana 02. Oshinogi/御凌ぎ [Amuse-bouche] - (PHOTO 3) On soba (Ume plum, wakame, soba, katsuobushi and chive in shiitake dashi) 03. Hassun/八寸 [starters] - (PHOTO 4) A. Pistachio tofu (Pistachio, beetroot miso, apple blossom and gold leaf) B. Uni, yaki shirako wan (Connemara sea urchin, cod milt, wasabi and akazu rice) C. Yo-nashi sansho wine zuke (Pear, sansho in Rosé wine with shiso fluff) D. Awabi jagaimo arare manju gin an (Connemara abalone, Kilbrack organic vitabella potato, roasted rice and gin-an dashi) E. Tori yawata maki (Manor farm chicken, burdock, Kilbrack organic carrot and French bean) 04. Wanmono/椀物 [dashi broth] - (PHOTO 5) Dobin mushi ; unagi and maitake (Lough Neagh eel, maitake, taro potato, sudachi lime and Leamlara Ivan's mitsuba) 05. Mukouzuke/向付 [Selection of sashimi] - (PHOTO 6) Kisetsu no osashimi 06. Nimono/煮物 [stew] - (PHOTO 7) Mekajiki misoni (Sword fish, aubergine, padrón pepper, leek, chilli and yuzu miso) 07. Yakimono/焼き物 [shichirin grill] Kamo aburiyaki yagi cheese (Thornhill duck, St Tola goats cheese, bamboo ash, brassica mustard and sakura smoked hazelnut tuile) 08. Mushimono/蒸物 [steamed] - (PHOTO 8) Chawanmushi (Egg dashi pot, foie gras, plum wine winter black truffle, edamame and apple foam) 09. Sunomono/酢物 [pickled] - (PHOTO 9) Iwashizu (Sardine, spaghetti squash, wakame, pepper dulse and shiso tosazu) 10. Gohanmono/飯物 [rice] - (PHOTO 9) Maguro ikura zuke don (Balfego blue fin tuna, ikura and zuke yolk soy sauce) 11. Tomewan/留椀 [soup] - (PHOTO 9) Akadashi (Red miso, tofu, chive and dashi) 12. Kanmi/甘味 [sweets] - (PHOTO 10) Kuzumochi zenzai (Adzuki beans, kuzu and tea leaves)

#一期一会 #ichigoichie #ichigoichiecork #TakashiMiyazaki #懐石 #kaiseki #懐石料理 #kaisekiryori #JapaneseCuisine #restaurant #eatingout #food #日本 #Japan #Ireland #Cork #nofilter

[thehungrykat1]

Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez Opens at The Westin Manila

The city's newest and possibly most authentic Spanish restaurant recently opened its doors at The Westin Manila. Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez is a new Spanish dining concept from multi-awarded celebrity chef Chele Gonzales that is named after and in honor of his hometown of Cantabria, located in the northern coast of Spain. The Hungry Kat was invited to the special media preview held last March 7, a day before it officially opened for dinner on March 8, 2024.

Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez is a new culinary venture in partnership with The Westin Manila which just recently celebrated its first anniversary. The restaurant is an ode to Chef Chele's childhood years and is a project that has been one year in the making. It's a place that Chef Chele can definitely be proud of as he shares his own Cantabria heritage with the rest of the world.

Cantabria is open from Tuesdays to Sundays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. You can find it on the hotel's topmost level, a more private and exclusive area with gorgeous views of the Ortigas central business district.

Plush sofas and elegant chairs give the place a sophisticated yet homey ambiance. The cozy interiors come decorated with beautiful Spanish tiles along with paintings and photos of the region. There's even a small metallic map of Cantabria adorning one of its walls.

Cantabria, in the words of Chef Chele, is an infinite landscape known for its unparalleled culinary treasures from its legendary ocean to a multitude of greeneries and mountains. Their menu takes guests to the shores of the Cantabria region, offering a taste of its bounty in delicate bites and indulgent delights.

Chef Chele Gonzales is proud to present the diversity of Spanish cuisine and to celebrate this region's ocean gems through heritage recipes from his childhood and early culinary beginnings. These are dishes he enjoyed at home prepared by his mother which he is now sharing with us. Together with chef de cuisine Ivan Saiz Sordo, Cantabria specializes in creative and sophisticated approach to seafood, as well as innovative tapas, comfort meats, and other traditional Spanish favorites.

Our evening started with some pintxos like the Wagyu and Inure Toast. These are made with wagyu tartare, salmon roe, and truffle yolk on top of a brioche toast. It's an immaculate burst of flavors with the tender wagyu just melting away with the egg yolk in one glorious bite.

The Toasta de Anchova y Berenjena is one of Chele's signature dishes using premium Cantabrian anchovy served with charred eggplant on a baguette toast. This gave guests a quick preview of the many Cantabrian seafood items the restaurant will be featuring.

There's also a bar area inside Cantabria with dedicated bartenders ready to prepare exquisite cocktails and bubbly beverages.

We had a taste of the Sangria Tinto as our welcome drink. This is a refreshing red wine sangria with fruity flavors.

The bartender also prepared a special cocktail for us called A Night in Santander, which is the capital of Cantabria. This comes with tequila in green tea and chili salt on the side. Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez offers a wide selection of beverages from sangria, cocktails, vino and more.

What Cantabria is really proud of are their sea produce. These imported seafood are on display at the counter for all the guests to see.

Chef Chele prepared a fantastic menu for us that evening to highlight some of his Spanish specialties using ingredients and cooking techniques from Cantabria

For our appetizers, first up was the Ostra De La Casa. These are plump and juicy oysters combined with sherry mignonette, green apple, and chives.

Next was the Tartlet De Viera, a scallop tartlet combined with white chocolate, caviar and celeriac puree. I was not sure if it was a starter or a dessert, because this had a unique combination of premium seafood and white chocolate. It was truly culinary genius on display because it all worked together and we all loved it.

These dishes were paired with the Torello Brut Reserve, a sparkling wine made using Penedes grapes from Spain.

We also tried some of the tapas on the menu. The Chili Crab Croquetas con Mayonesa De Lima comes with creamy chili crab croquettes with lime mayonnaise. The croquettes really tasted like Singaporean chili crab and we didn't even have to get our hands dirty.

The Ravioli de Carne Guisada con Espuma de Parmesano is a braised beef and porcini ravioli topped with parmesan espuma and basil oil. Chef Chele used to eat this dish as a child when his mother made these for him during Saturday lunches. These tapas were served with Menade Rueda Verdejo Blanco from Spain.

For our main course, the highlight of the evening was the Rodaballo a la Parrilla or Grilled Whole Wild Turbot. The wild turbot is a flat fish that is native to European waters and is highly valued and classified as a fine dining fish. Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez is one of the very few places where you can find this gem on the menu. Our portions of the Grilled Wild Turbot were served with house salad and potatoes on the side.

The next main course was the Arroz Negro de Viera Y Chipiron. This comes with black ink creamy rice topped with grilled scallops, baby squid and herb aioli. It's similar to a paella negra but the creaminess of the rice is more like a risotto which I really liked. The big pieces of scallops were also a delicious addition.

Meatlovers don't have to worry because there's also the Presa Iberico con Patata Y Mojos. This is a grilled pork iberico steak served with fried marble potatoes plus green and red mojos sauces. The pork was so tender and flavorful, as if I was eating at one of the country's best steakhouses.

To make this course even more spectacular, it was served with a glass of Les Cousins L'Inconscient from Catalonia, Spain.

For dessert, Chef Chele presented probably the most delicious cake I have ever tasted. The Sobao Pasiego is a Cantabria delicacy cake served with cheese ice cream and berries coulis. The fluffy cake was just heavenly and went so well with the ice cream and mixed berries.

We ended our exquisite dinner with the Toffe, Cacao, Avellana Y Cafe. This is a chocolate sponge cake with caramel mousse and caramelized hazelnut topped with ice cream. We would like to thank Chef Chele Gonzalez for hosting and preparing our lovely dinner in Cantabria at The Westin Manila. This is definitely the most authentic Spanish restaurant you can find in Metro Manila because Chef Chele has crafted the entire menu from his heart.

Cantabria by Chele Gonzalez

Roof Level, The Westin Manila, San Miguel Avenue corner Lourdes Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig

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#Cantabria #CantabriaManila #CheleGonzalez #TheWestinManila #Westin #Spanish #CantabriabyCheleGonzalez

[gerbits]

it’s been a while since we’ve caught up with Ivan, Violet, and Ehren!

#it's been such a while that i gave y'all a link to remember ehren #to be fair #it's a spare family #the sims 4 #the sims #sims #ts4 gameplay #truffle:3 #denver truffle #ivan truffle #sim:violet #ehren truffle #truffles

[sixthousandbees]

I’m writing a thing and I forgot how verbose and flowy my writing gets if I don’t pay attention. Suddenly all these long words rear their heads and don’t fit in the mouth of the “uneducated weasel” character I’m writing for. 

I’ve got a couple of good goofs, but I’m pleased with this metaphor I wrote to try and remind me to tone down the long words. 

“(we) wished to show, our appreciation,” the word rolled in his mouth like a sweet.

#nonsensebees #this is the first scene. an introduction #the char is a piglike char #so I have fit like 5 pig puns into his introduction #Viceroy to queen porcia #comes from phigstee (pigsty) #child of truffles the terrible #their name is 'Sir Hamuel Vasowyev née the Terrible' #Ivan the terribles surname is Vasilyevich #I really like 'nee THE TERRIBLE' #its all good guys its just a family name! #jk this is the antagonist #this seems like a trite thing to be proud of now #but its a step better than the runaway dialgouge I had

[miraculouswolf99]

Miraculous/Just Add Magic Crossover Idea

I was a big fan of the Just Add Magic show when it first came out. A show about a trio of friends that discover a book filled with magical recipes that require rather enchanting ingredients to make even normal food turn magical. And since Marinette lives in a bakery, who better to get the book.

The idea is that Marinette and her family have been living in the bakery with the house above it for years. But the day before the first day of school happens, Marinette accidentally discovers a small door behind the paint in her room when she pushed a chair in her room against the wall a little too hard. It uncovered the door a little and behind the door was just a little shelf with the magical recipe book inside along with perfectly preserved herb and spice seeds. 

Marinette obviously does not know about magic yet, so she just shrugs and decides to keep the book and seeds. She finds them both interesting even if she has no idea why some of the herbs and spices have weird names like Cedronian and Livonian in front of them.

The first day of school goes off as normal as it usually does. Chloe is still a bullying brat, Kim and Alix are still very competitive with one another, Ivan is still shy about his crush on Mylene. The only difference is the addition of the two new students, Alya and Adrien. Adrien still does not make a good first impression on her because of Chloe and the gum incident, but the umbrella scene will always be adorable.

It is after Hawkmoth first appears and Stoneheart is first taken care of does Marinette find out more about the recipe book and seeds that she had found in the secret shelf in her room. 

Tikki explained to her that the book was one of her favorite magical creations. It was not the Miraculous Spellbook, but it was a book filled with enchanting recipes that have amazing effects for those that eat or drink the edible creations when they contain the magical spices and herbs. So, with the permission of her parents, Marinette follows Tikki’s instructions and plants all of the seeds. And magically, the plants grow almost overnight.

It was soon after that Marinette started using the magical ingredients that Tikki explained more about the book and how it worked. There needed to be three protectors of the book. Especially after the disaster of a brother and sister pair trying to keep the book forever and the sister ended up trapped inside the book until three other protectors were able to free her. So, Marinette ended up learning that Adrien and Nathaniel were the other two protectors when they both discovered the book on their own when they each came to visit her. The book had brought all of them together.

Between the magic of the book and the added magic of the miraculous, the trio also became a hero trio as well as the protectors. Only this time they were all aware of each other’s identities. Marinette was even able to convince Master Fu to allow Nathaniel to keep the fox miraculous full time, allowing him to become Vulpix.

The three try to use the book in order to help them locate Hawkmoth as well as give them an aid during tough akuma battles. Only it seemed that because of the powerful glamour miraculous holders get when they transform, it messes with the magic of the recipes and only allows clues into Hawkmoth’s identity instead of actually locating him. 

The trio try recipes like Lost And Found-u to try and locate the lost butterfly and peacock miraculous. They find tons of lost things other than the magically protected jewelry. They try the P.O.V. Popcorn, but only end up seeing black when they try to look through Hawkmoth’s eyes. And the Solve the Clues-Cous only helps hem gather more clues to his identity instead of actually helping them figure the clues out.

But there were some recipes they made just in case they helped deal with akumas. Like the Raise the Wall Roasted Tomatoes kept the akuma in one place until the fight was over. And the Big Mussels and Spinach gave the three a big boost to their strength.

The only ones that the trio tell about the book are Luka, Kagami, and Marc. They are the back-up protectors in case any of them get akumatized, corrupted, or compromised. 

But things take a turn when Lila joins the class. She is still a meager liar, but she also happens to be the descendant of a former protector that had also attempted to keep the book for selfish reasons. 

Lila ends up spying on Marinette, Adrien, and Nathaniel when they all make it clear that none of them believe her lies. She sees them with the book when she was trying to figure out how they knew. Since she knows about the book from family stories, she plots to take it from them since even to this day, her family still believes that they deserve the book.

Unluckily for her, the trio did not think it was ever a good idea to just let one of them keep the book at all times. So they are always changing hands between the three of them every few days.

Since she can never catch any of the trio without their bags, and they never have the book in their lockers, Lila decides to lie about the book to the rest of the class. They had all known that the trio shared a book between them, but none of them ever questioned them about since Marinette had spun a really good tale that it was just a cookbook that she was using when the boys asked her to teach them to cook and bake.

Since most of the class was already deep under her spell, Lila tells more lies. She first lies about the three bullying her to get the class to distrust them. Then she gets Marinette expelled to sew even more doubt into the class, even when Adrien and Nathaniel used Make-It-Happen Macarons to undo the expulsion. Lila then starts to lie about the book. First is with whispers like “that book looks like the pictures of an old family heirloom that went missing a while back.” Or saying things like “why do they never let anyone near that book, pretty weird don’t you think?” She soon spreads the lie about the book being a Rossi family heirloom that went missing and even when she told the trio that, they insulted her and continued to keep the book from her.

The class had already taken to bullying the trio because of Lila’s lies. Juleka, Kim, and Alix were the only ones that did not. They first tried to just demand the book, not once believing that Lila lied about it. Then they try to just take it. When those things fail, they keep attempting to steal it in sneakier ways.

This goes on for almost a month before the class takes things too far and rip up Marinette and Nathaniel’s sketchbooks as “revenge.” The trio decide that enough is enough. Luka, Kagami, and Marc had all been trying to tell the three to use the to expose Lila and keep the book safe from her. So they decide that it is finally time to do so.

They start with A Taste of Your Own Mochi to make Lila experience karma first hand since now all of her plans will backfire on her. Then they use Gazpa-Chill Soup to keep all tempers calm to keep akumas away. Then they bring down the hammer with a combo of Settle the Beef Sandwich and Bitter Truth Truffles in order to finally reveal Lila as the liar that she was. It also revealed that the book was never Lila’s or her family’s and she just wanted it because she wants it and feels like she deserves it.

Having seen how fickle their so-called friends really were, all three of the protectors transfer to another class, same with Kim, Juleka, and Alix. But the protectors also decide to use the Forget-Me Garlic Knots to make Lila and their old class forget about the book altogether. 

Next they needed to find a way to finally get rid of Hawkmoth.

#ml salt #lila salt #Lila exposed #i hate lila rossi #class salt #just add magic #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fandom #crossovers are the best #CrossOver #magic

[burlveneer-music]

Oren Ambarchi - Live Hubris - 15-piece band live at Café Oto (Black Truffle)

Black Truffle is pleased to announce Live Hubris, documenting the hypnotic and electrifying live performance of Oren Ambarchi’s 2016 LP Hubris by a fifteen-strong band at London’s Café Oto. Over three days in May 2019, Oto toasted Oren Ambarchi at 50/Black Truffle at 10 with Ambarchi and a large group of close friends and collaborators in a series of performances that interspersed existing projects with new collective endeavours, culminating with this: fourteen members of the extended Black Truffle family together on stage, joined by one special virtual guest, to translate the intricately studio-constructed layers of Hubris into a muscular live band workout. Operating with only the bare minimum of pre-gig preparation after the planned afternoon rehearsal had to be wrapped up prematurely due to noise complaints, the gargantuan group lurches into motion with a 21-minute rendition of ‘Hubris Part 1’, powered by the pulsating electronics of Konrad Sprenger (the ‘ringmaster’ at the ensemble’s core) and no less than seven electric guitars spinning a web of intricately interlocking palm-muted polyrhythms. The layers of closely related but metrically distinct lines create ripples of shifting accents, flickering changes in emphasis that ricochet along the endless central pulse. Gradually building in density, this motorik continuum becomes the backdrop for the haunting tones of Eiko Ishibashi’s processed flute and an extended feature from long-distance guest Jim O’Rourke on guitar synth. After the brief interlude of the second part, where Albert Marcoeur-esque guitar arpeggios accompany a halting attempt at phone conversation, the full ensemble gears up for the epic side-long rendition of ‘Hubris Part 3’. Now joined by the astonishing triple drum line-up of Joe Talia, Will Guthrie and Andreas Werliin, the layered pulse of the opening piece becomes a burning funk-fusion groove. Beginning on a medium simmer, the ensemble initially stick to its pulsating one-note mantra, over which Ambarchi unfurls a beautiful example of his signature shimmering Leslie-toned guitar harmonics, eventually joined by Ishibashi’s flute and some brooding, distorted dissonance from Julia Reidy’s guitar. Building steadily for the first nine minutes, the heat then rises dramatically with a first, gloriously loose chord change: with the all drummers now rolling and tumbling like a twice-cloned Jack DeJohnette circa 1970, Mats Gustafsson enters on baritone, his tortured roars and shrieks driving the band to peaks of insane intensity. Finally, the exhausted ensemble drops out, leaving only the jagged, skittering fuzz of Ambarchi’s guitar, brought to an abrupt conclusion at the command of crys cole. Arriving on hot pink vinyl with artwork by Lasse Marhaug and an extensive selection of live photos by Ivan Weiss and Fabio Lugaro, Live Hubris brings this ambitious and outrageous evening of music to the safety of the home stereo.

#Oren Ambarchi #electronic #minimalism #experimental #jam #live #black truffle #2021 #cafe oto

[innervoiceartblog]

“Aim high.

Clear Truth or Sight is going to continue to be one of the greatest quests we are navigating. Be watchful. Keep your eyes open on the inside, to your own clarity of thinking.

Outwardly there are gardens and fields of truth. Weeds and thorns too. Be careful and striving in the search for truth like Psyche, sifting poppyseeds in a haystack, or Ivan, following the trail of a firebirds feather.

The gods and goddesses throw us suitcases filled with fate and Destiny, hurdles and obstacles, gifts and strengths. You need a keen sniffer to smell through the compost to the truffles. Keep cleaning your thinking. It’s the work of these times. The physical and mental control required of the archers is a helpful image to illuminate the task required of us in our thinking sensing bodies in these times.

Stories can be spun with silk but also with mirrors and smoke screens. Every news source is sure it is true. Which is propaganda? Which is distortion? Our thoughts also have their propagandas and distortions.

As above so below, as within so without.

No one, absolutely no one, said these times were going to be easy. J.R.R. Tolkien used to say it is dangerous business going out your front door. That includes the door from the psyche to the ego or the door from the emotions to the thoughts or the door from what we pick up on in the outside world and how we filter it within. There is so much to filter and sift. You could be Vassalissa all day long working inside of Baba Yaga’s hearth hut, cleaning and cleaning and sifting and sorting. All day long, separating mustard from poppy seeds.

Sometimes it seems an insurmountable task, but then one remembers to feed the doll in the pocket. Or did you forget that you had one? Do you feed your intuition? Do you feed your soul? Do you feed your spirit? These things work mysteriously throughout the night helping us with our safety and sorting, hurdles and obstacles, inside and out.”

- The Wild Matryoshka

#the wild matryoshka #aim high #intuition #clear truth #sight #discerning #live #love #life #inspiration #remember

[slut4russia]

Hello i’m bored in the car for two hours so here are some random hetalia headcanons ✨

I will prob write more at some point but u kno,,,

Alfred went to coachella once, and swears he will never go again

Francis actually doesn’t smell like cheese, but expensive cologne and roses

Matthew’s bedroom is very vibey, he has a lot of really cool tapestries on his walls and ceiling

Ludwig baby talks to his dogs when nobody is around

Elizabeta absolutely loves ginger snap cookies

Ivan loves cats, almost as much as heracles but will never admit it

Kiku loves visiting small town markets/shops when he visits alfred

Arthur uses 3-in-1 in the shower

Feliciano likes to go for drives when he gets overwhelmed

Alfred does not like chick-fil-a and refuses to eat there

Roderich has rly bad ibs

Lovino’s favorite flavor of coffee is caramel truffle

Yao adores EXO, his favorite members are Luhan (former member) and Chen

Gilbert smoked A LOT of weed, him and matthew often smoke together

Katyusha loves receiving gifts

Antonio, Francis, and Gilbert will play among us for hours

Matthias, Gilbert, and Alfred like to play roblox and troll others on the game

Natalia loves the rain, especially when it pours

Michelle loves peaches, they are her favorite fruit

Tino and Berwald always wake up before noon

If Feliciano finds a stray animal, he WILL take it with him no matter the cost, especially cats

#hetalia #hetalia headcanons #aph #hetalia world twinkle #hetalia world stars #aph america #aph russia #aph china #aph canada #aph england #aph france #aph germany #aph italy #aph japan #aph romano #aph prussia #hetalia axis powers #aph austria #aph seychelles #aph hungary #aph ukraine #aph belarus #aph denmark #aph spain #aph nordics #aph sweden #aph finland

[none-of-your-biscuits]

Anyway miraclass (plus kagami and luka ofc) plays stardew valley

Marinette: she canonically plays like fighting games me think so she either just doesn't play or is the equivalent of the post that's like "I spent all my time in the mines, I didn't farm at all."

"Did you at least pet the cows and horse?"

"There's cows and horses???"

Adrien: plays animal crossing instead like a chump

Alya: plays for completionist and spent a month hunting for the dino egg artifact, judges you if u sell out to joja, doesn't romance people unless that's smth u need for completionist

Nino: sold out to joja on accident bc he forgot about the community center and never checks his mail, has 15 Scarecrows surrounding his field, only grows wheat, strawberries and blueberries, skips through winter

Max: spends half his time on the wiki to make the most efficient gifts to give everyone, has the most thought out farm layout, only has a blue chicken, a dinosaur and a singular cow, doesn't know they can eat the grass, romances Alex but only when they happen to cross paths, was gonna sell out to joja but felt bad

Kim: only checks his mail one a week, has 12 chickens, can't fish and is salty about it, only grows crops that you can harvest repeatedly, will never finish the museum collection, picks the basic dog

Alix: said it was boring but stayed up until four am trying to romance Haley, has completed the museum collection, caught all the legendary fish and is smug about it, has a coop full of rabbits and a singular void chicken

Rose: makes friends with all the townies, trys to grow all the crops each season but grows flowers in the greenhouse, romances Abigail, has all the animals, spends forever decorating her house, hates skull cavern with a passion

Juleka: rommates with krobus, spends her time either decorating her house or running her like hundred kegs making wine and juices out of everything, can't fish, got bored at one point and used the item id cheat to fill two coops with dinosaurs, doesn't check her mail or do tasks

Ivan: spends all his time fishing, running a fish pond empire at this point, checks his mail, has a fruit tree orchard and a bunch of sheep

Mylene: collects all the animals, installs cottage core mods, plants flowers, uses an elaborate sprinkler system to water said flowers

Chloe: forgets you pass out at 2 am, prefers animal crossing, still has like 20 bee houses

Sabrina: has an all pig barn to hunt truffles, completes as many help wanted quests as she can, has sworn revenge against anyone who can fish properly, skips through winter

Nathaniel: waters everything manually like a freak, only keeps cows, once accidentally closed the app before the game saved after spending 15 minutes in skull cavern, bullies the npcs

Lila: skips days instead of playing through them to grow trees, can fish well enough, has to google when heart events take place, uses the wiki a lot

Kagami: suffers in the skull mines but refuses to give up, only talks to the npcs when she crosses paths, takes 3 years to finish the community center cause she picked the mushroom cave on accident and forgot she could reset the day

Luka: plays animal crossing smh (only bc he failed at fishing so much he just gave up out of frustration)

#ill add tags later #i dont think i missed anyone

[gale-dragon-writer]

So... I got this idea for a Miraculous x Chaotic story... 😅

Summary so Far:

Basically, during the final confrontation with Hawkmoth and Mayura (who is now wielding a fixed Peacock Miraculous) with Ladybug, Chat Noir, Honeybee (Bee!Chloe's new hero identity), Arashi (Dragon!Kagami's new hero identity), Roi Siege, Bunnyx, Pegasus, Viperion, Snapper (Turtle!Nino's new hero identity), Tigress (Tiger!Jukela), Pink Truffles (Pig!Rose), Henpeck (Rooster!Sabrina), Black Sheep and White Sheep (Sheep!Marc and Sheep!Nath respectively, and before anyone says anything, in this story I'm making the Sheep's power having to do with Shadows & Lights and needs two holders that need to be in sync with each other to use, plus there are two pieces for this Miraculous so it's possible), Power Ox (Ox!Ivan), and Petite Souris (Mouse!Mylène). Marinette's parents, Miss Bustier, Ms Mendeleiev, Markov, and Gorilla are nearby watching this. Alya is recording a little too close to the action. Ladybug has the remaining Miraculous in her yo-yo.

During the battle, Mayura manages to knock Bunnyx's Miraculous off her (luckily Alix manages to hide before she completely de-transform). Pegasus manages to pick up the Rabbit Miraculous and Unify them to become Cosmic Pegasus. He tries to use the new powers to turn the tide in the good guys' favour, but Hawkmoth and Mayura manage to counter, somewhat... The next thing everyone knows, there was a huge flash of light that engulfs the area. Once the light vanishes, only Gabriel and Nathalie are standing where Hawkmoth and Mayura stood... Everyone else is gone.

In Perim (the Chaotic world)... Tom, Kaz, Sarah, and Payton (the main characters in Chaotic) are camping in the Forest of Life (location in Perim) when they find four strange pieces of jewellery; a small purple broach, a blue peacock feather pin, a fox-tail neckless, and a dog-theme choker. Tom picks the broach, Kaz picks the fox-tail, Sarah picks the pin, and Payton picks the choker.

They think the items are cool, and since no one else was around to claim them, they decide to keep the items as they put the jewellery on. It's not until later when Tom is in Kiru City (Location in Perim that's the main home of the Overworld Tribe), Kaz is in Underworld City (Location in Perim that's the main home of the Underworld Tribe), Payton is in Al' Mipedim (Location in Perim that's the main home of the Royalty of the Mipedian Tribe), and Sarah is in Mt Piller (Location in Perim that's the main home of the Damian Tribe) is where they find Nooroo, Trixx, Barrk, and Duusu respectively and discover what the items they found really were. (I'm going to end that there because I don't know how many of you know about the other characters in Chaotic).

But I'll get into the Hero Identity that they use to help their Favorite Tribes. Tom takes up the Hero Persona of "Assist" (because the Butterfly/Moth Miraculous is supposed to provide "Assistance" to people who want to help). Sarah uses the Hero Persona "Peacock Butterfly" (Damians are insects-like creatures, Sarah's a huge fan of insects, so she's using the name of an existing bug that has the word Peacock in its name to connect the Damians and the Peacock Miraculous together). Payton uses the Hero Persona of "Sound Master" (More pun on his user-handle). And Kaz uses the Hero Persona of "Vallic Fox".

A Week Later... Ladybug, Alya, the Sheeps, and Marinette's Parents suddenly appear in Kiru city. Honeybee, Henpeck, Alix, Pink Truffles, Tigress, and Miss Bustier suddenly appear in Mt Piller. Viperion, Snapper, Power Ox, Petite Souris, Markov, and Gorilla suddenly appear in the Oasis. Chat Noir, Roi Siege, Arashi, and Ms Mendeleiev suddenly appear in Underworld City. All are confused at their new surrounding and wondering where the heck they are!

And somewhat of a joke... When they are asked how they have powers in Chaotic, the Miraculous characters would reply with "What's Chaotic?"

There's also the fact that the Miraculous Characters are trying to return home but Max is missing along with the Horse and Rabbit Miraculous, so they're trying to find him so they can get back home. But they're adjusting to living in Perim, some a little better than others.

#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain-cheng #miraculous kim #adrien agreste #max kante #miraculous au #miraculous rose #miracuclass #miraculous juleka #miraculous marc #miraculous nathaniel #miraculous ivan #miraculous Mylène #miraculous mylene #miraculous chloe #chloe bourgeois #miraculous sabrina #miraculous alya #let’s get chaotic #chaotic #le chien kim #miss bustier's class #tom majors #kaz #sarah #payton #miraculous nino #Chaotic

[gerbits]

some things never change

#the sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #truffle:2 #imogen truffle #ivan truffle #truffles

[kristenswig]

Best Picture

Nomadland

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Minari

Mank

Judas and the Black Messiah

Promising Young Woman

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

The Father If 10- Sound of Metal In Its Flop Era- News of the World How Far Are We Taking This Bit- The Mauritanian No- Da 5 Bloods Fell Off- Soul Get Out of My House- Borat

Best Director

Chloe Zhao - Nomadland

David Fincher - Mank

Lee Isaac Chung - Minari

Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman

Shaka King - Judas and the Black Messiah I Simply Do Not Accept It Into My Heart - Aaron Sorkin - The Trial of the Chicago 7 Let’s Ask Oscar Nominated Directors Ben Affleck, Denzel Washington, and Bradley Cooper How This Goes - Regina King - One Night in Miami I’m Not Seeing It But I Would Like To - Florian Zeller - The Father Still No - Spike Lee - Da 5 Bloods Whoever the Hell Directed This - “Paul Greengrass” - News of the World Wouldn’t Be That Surprising - Thomas Vinterberg - Another Round

Best Actress

Viola Davis - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Frances McDormand - Nomadland

Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman 

Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman

Andra Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday Fad - Rosamund Pike - I Care a Lot Stop Trying to Make This Happen - Sophia Loren - The Life Ahead I Do Have to Be Impressed With Netflix’s Blatant Astroturfing of This Campaign/Movie - Zendaya - Malcolm & Marie shestrying.jpg - Amy Adams - Hillbilly Elegy

Best Actor

Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins - The Father

Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal

Steven Yeun - Minari

Gary Oldman - Mank Tempting- Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian Most Acting- Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods Sure!- Mads Mikkelsen - Another Round

Supporting Actress

Yuh-Jung Youn - Minari

Maria Bakalova - Borat

Olivia Colman - The Father

Amankda Seyfried - Mank

Dominique Fishback - Judas and the Black Messiah Do I Dare Predict This Snub - Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy Still Feels Like a Globes Thing - Jodie Foster - The Mauritanian Even I Didn’t Get Why This Was Supposed to Happen - Ellen Burstyn - Pieces of a Woman Shut It Down - Helena Zengel - News of the World

Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah

Sacha Baron Cohen - Trial of the Chicago 7

Leslie Odom Jr. - One Night in Miami

Paul Raci - Sound of Metal

David Strathairn - Nomadland Nothing for This Movie - Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods Everything for This Movie? - Alan Kim - Minari Also a Fad - Jared Leto - The Little Things

Adapted Screenplay

Nomadland

The Father

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

B*rat Should’ve Just Sat There and Ate Your Tech Nominations - News of the World Ok - The Mauritanian When Did This Category Get So Many Contenders - The White Tiger BONNIE WAKE UP - I’m Thinking of Ending Things BONNIE STAY WITH ME I NEED YOU - First Cow

Original Screenplay

Trial of the Chicago 7

Mank

Promising Young Woman

Minari

Judas and the Black Messiah Probably Stupid Not to Predict This - Sound of Metal In Another Year - Soul They Probably Watched This - Palm Springs They Did Not Watch This - Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Cinematography

Nomadland

Mank

News of the World

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (???)

Judas and the Black Messiah Was Going to Predict This Until the ASC Happened - Minari Cherk? - Cherk The Worst Shot Movie of the Year - Da 5 Bloods His Movies Only End Up Here If It’s Also a Best Picture Nominee - Tenet Automatic B&W Possibilities - Malcolm & Marie, Dear Comrades, Gunda

Costume Design

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

Emma

Personal History of David Copperfield

Jingle Jangle CHAOS NOMINEE They Didn’t Care for Aladdin?- Mulan Another Tempting Pick- Ammonite Feel Like It Should’ve Had a Guild Nomination- News of the World Aggressive- Promising Young Woman Recent- The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Film Editing

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Father (the gif is at the ready) I Had Mank in Too Many Categories So I Dropped It From Here - Mank Is In The BP Top 5 - Minari Already Predicting That This Movie Will Stomp So - Judas and the Black Messiah The Paul Greengrass Version of This Movie Would’ve Scored - News of the World Again Only When He’s In Best Picture - Tenet

Makeup and Hair

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Hillbilly Elegy

Birds of Prey

The Glorias

Jingle Jangle AGAIN Another Mank Prediction Drop - Mank Is It Flashy Enough?? - Emma Gaslighting is When I’m Told Another Pinocchio Movie Came Out - Pinocchio

Production Design

Mank

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

News of the World

The Midnight Sky

Tenet See Above Re: Aladdin - Mulan They Don’t Like Women’s Period Pieces Here - Emma Deserves Pt. 1 - The Father Enough - The Trial of the Chicago 7 Deserves Pt. 2 - Personal History of David Copperfield

Score

Soul

Mank

Minari

The Midnight Sky

Tenet Literally No Clue - News of the World Watch Another Movie - The Trial of the Chicago 7 Kristenswig Official FYC - The Invisible Man

how did we literally get rid of sound editing before this category

the one song about speaking

the one song about seeing

the one song about fighting

the one song about hearing

I had the word “Eurovision” blacklisted on this website and also Twitter so I didn’t even know this movie existed until like 4 months after it came out Stacey - Abrams Minari?? The Only Song I’ve Actually Heard and then Voluntarily Listened to Again - Green

Sound et al.

Sound of Metal

Mank

News of the World

Greyhound

Tenet (although I’m sensing a potential breakup between this branch and Christopher Nolan coming) There Was The....Music - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom There Was Also Music - Soul Bucket Shitting - Nomadland Space! - The Midnight Sky

Visual Effects

Tenet

The Midnight Sky

Welcome to Chechnya

Mank

The ! One ! and ! Only ! Ivan ! Not Feeling Her - Mulan the what - Love and Monsters

Animated Feature

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Over the Moon

Onward (the sample size for two Pixars potentially being nominated at the same time is like...one non-pandemic year)

Shaun the Sheep ??? - The Croods Most Influential - Trolls World Tour Literally Nothing Would Surprise Me - Bombay Rose We Already Have Netflix Covered Twice Here - The Willoughbys When tf Did This Come Out - No. 7 Cherry Lane 

Doc Feature

Time (or is this the frontrunner that gets snubbed every year)

Collective

Welcome to Chechnya

Boys State

All In This Makes Sense! - MLK/FBI This Makes Sense! - Crip Camp This Makes Sense! - The Truffle Hunters This Makes Sense! - Dick Johnson Is Dead

The Artist Formerly and More Accurately Known as Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round

Quo Vadis Aida

Collective

Two of Us

The Man Who Sold His Skin There Are Like 500 Ways You Could Spin The Last 3 Spots In This Category and I Wouldn’t Be Shocked So In Descending Order of Likelihood? - Dear Comrades, La Llorona, I’m No Longer Here, Night of Kings

#my other prediction is that the nominations will be much more insane than I'm currently predicting

[zhhnmqd3k5]

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Quo Vadis, Aida?”

Chile, “The Mole Agent”

Czech Republic, “Charlatan”

Denmark, “Another Round”

France, “Two of Us”

Guatemala, “La Llorona”

Hong Kong, “Better Days”

Iran, “Sun Children”

Ivory Coast, “Night of the Kings”

Mexico, “I’m No Longer Here”

Norway, “Hope”

Romania, “Collective”

Russia, “Dear Comrades!”

Taiwan, “A Sun”

Tunisia, “The Man Who Sold His Skin”

DOCUMENTARY

“All In: The Fight for Democracy”

“Boys State”

“Collective”

“Crip Camp”

“Dick Johnson Is Dead”

“Gunda”

“MLK/FBI”

“The Mole Agent”

“My Octopus Teacher”

“Notturno”

“The Painter and the Thief”

“76 Days”

“Time”

“The Truffle Hunters”

“Welcome to Chechnya”

ORIGINAL SCORE

“Ammonite”

“Blizzard of Souls”

“Da 5 Bloods”

“The Invisible Man”

“Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”

“The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)”

“The Little Things”

“Mank”

“The Midnight Sky”

“Minari”

“Mulan”

“News of the World”

“Soul”

“Tenet”

“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

ORIGINAL SONG

“Turntables” from “All In: The Fight for Democracy”

“See What You’ve Done” from “Belly of the Beast”

“Wuhan Flu” from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once

Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”

“Husavik” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”

“Never Break” from “Giving Voice”

“Make It Work” from “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”

“Fight For You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah”

“lo Sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)”

“Rain Song” from “Minari”

“Show Me Your Soul” from “Mr. Soul!”

“Loyal Brave True” from “Mulan”

“Free” from “The One and Only Ivan”

“Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami…”

“Green” from “Sound of Metal”

“Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

“Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn”

“Emma”

“The Glorias”

“Hillbilly Elegy”

“Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”

“The Little Things”

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

“Mank”

“One Night in Miami…”

“Pinocchio”

VISUAL EFFECTS

“Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn”

“Bloodshot”

“Love and Monsters”

“Mank”

“The Midnight Sky”

“Mulan”

“The One and Only Ivan”

“Soul”

“Tenet”

“Welcome to Chechnya”

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

“Bittu”

“Da Yie”

“Feeling Through”

“The Human Voice”

“The Kicksled Choir”

“The Letter Room”

“The Present”

“Two Distant Strangers”

“The Van”

“White Eye”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

“Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa”

“Call Center Blues”

“Colette”

“A Concerto Is a Conversation”

“Do Not Split”

“Hunger Ward”

“Hysterical Girl”

“A Love Song for Latasha”

“The Speed Cubers”

“What Would Sophia Loren Do?”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“Burrow”

“Genius Loci”

“If Anything Happens I Love You”

“Kapaemahu”

“Opera”

“Out”

“The Snail and the Whale”

“To Gerard”

“Traces”

“Yes-People”

Oscar Shortlists Revealed: International Feature, Documentary, Original Score, and More

Comiccs4fun #iamitsquad