Liz, while we're watching a movie: Woop woop! Matte painting! Matte paintining! WOOP WOOP! Matte painting alert!!!
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I should write a novel about a depressed middle aged guy who's an English professor in a loveless marriage having a torrid affair with his stunningly attractive undergraduate student. like I just think it would be really funny for a polyamorous lesbian with a terrific wife to write one of those books
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posted on seaslug.garden seeking (spooky) movie recommendations
For the past several years, I’ve treated October as an excuse to watch the Big Famous Movies (horror edition) that I’ve never gotten around to watching, plus some other ones thrown in that are on-theme. So far Natalie and I have done:
Draculas month, featuring:
- Dracula (1931). The One with Bela Lugosi
- Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
- Dracula (1958). Lee/Cushing, delightful
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974). Hammer Horror and Hong Kong martial arts crossover.
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). has also inspired a different project, “watch every film costumed or designed by Eiko Ishioka”
Zombies month, featuring:
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Evil Dead II (1987). watching Evil Dead in the Draculas year inspired the zombie theme
- One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Aliens month (ongoing this year!), featuring:
- Alien (1979)
- Aliens (1986)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- The Thing from Another World (1951)
- The Thing (1982)
So here’s where you come in: what are some important themes we could do? What goes on those lists? I’m largely looking for The Big Ones (like the Romero trilogy, Alien, Dracula, stuff like that), but give me any sleeper hits you think really should not be missed and what theme they go with. I don’t do great with loving depictions of torture or human-on-human violence, but if you think there’s something I really shouldn’t miss for cultural reasons, recommend it and let me know whether I should prepare myself going in.
Future themes we’re rotating in our minds include: Vampires (non-Dracula edition), Ghosts (The Shining, Poltergeist, etc), Horror Comedy (things like Evil Dead would go here), Witches, and Werewolves. Any major categories we missed? Recommendations for movies to add to theme year reprises are also welcome.
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people say kids are easily amused but I think it's way more true for adults. I could go toe to toe with any child on appreciating the simple delight of a shiny rock or a colorful picture book, but I defy any six year old to fully savor the sublime joy of getting a new dryer that doesn't even need an external vent
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my wife bringing "bisexual sitting" to the next level
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posted on shelraphen.com How will we be remembered? — The Jewish People After the War
How will we be remembered? As the Jewish people, what will history remember of our actions today? What will be the narrative they tell about us? We were victims of the holocaust, and then enacted a genocide ourselves. We have truly gone astray.
Ultimately, the war in Gaza cannot last forever. The situation in Israel and Palestine cannot last forever as it is. Someday, it will end. The question is, how? When it's all over, what will become of the Jewish people? How will be remembered?
This past Saturday was Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, dedicated to self-reflection and atonement for the harms—both individual and collective—done over the past year. It may has also have been the single year in which Jews, as a collective, have done the most gruesome harm across all our thousands of years of history. This is bitterly painful to reckon with, but now is the time we must reckon with the things that are the hardest.
Shel's post dives into this pain by imagining how Jews will be seen after the war is concluded, once the die has been cast and the world must sit with the outcome. None of the hypotheticals are rosey, because the Jews inescapably have blood on our hands. But it's also worth taking this as a reminder that the future is not yet set in stone, and that we may still work to see the best future that's possible from the imperfect now. We may still perform actions we will be proud of, and our children will be proud of, in the years and centuries down the line.
Next year, in a free Jerusalem.
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posted on shuppy.org double rainbow
Nikon D3200 + AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
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posted on postnow.site I see myself
As the casey of postnow dot site
I'm the Natalie of nex-3.com
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From the nature of breakfast burritos, breakfast burgers, and so we can deduce that to breakfast a food item is to add egg to it. This in turn implies that fried chicken is "breakfast chicken", ramen is "breakfast noodle soup", and sponge cake is a "breakfast cookie".
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I finally have an 88x31!
The avatar is by subspaceskater, Zandra did the layout, and I made the nettle leaf (with substantial help from a photo reference). Feel free to use it to link here if that's your thing!
