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catnipster69 · 2 years

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Thanks @redmyeyes ! I don’t get tagged for these things often, so yay! Note that I changed some of the asks on here as some of them bored me beyond acceptability.

About Me

Name: You may call me…catnipster

Sign: Scorpio

Height: 5'7”

Time zone: The least populated but the best of all time zones, US Mountain

Favorite band/artists: The Who, David Bowie, Screaming Trees, Paul Kelly, Queens of the Stone Age, Trail of Dead, so many more.

Last movie: “Fire Island.” It was OK. I don’t see as many movies as I used to pre-Covid. For one thing, I used to go weekly with my Dad. Now he’s afraid to leave his apartment. Not that there are any good movies to see in the theater anyway. Last one I saw in the theater: “Nope.” Meh. There was a lot of water footage on stuff that maybe was symbolic? But otherwise irrelevant?

Favorite movie: My old standby has been “A Clockwork Orange.” The interesting thing about this movie is how disturbing it is. I first saw it when I was 12, and I found it less disturbing then than I did when I was more mature. I have to put a word in for “The Death of Stalin.” I feel like no one saw this, and it’s the funniest movie I’ve ever seen. In a black comedy way. I also love “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Bladerunner: 2049,” “Last of the Mohicans,” and many more.

Last shows: I just watched Supernatural 11x1 on my umpteenth rewatch. Partway through The Sandman. The Rehearsal. Primal. Evil. Uncoupled. Blown Away. Great Pottery Throw Down. The Late Show. Sex Lives of College Girls. Iron Chef.

When I created this blog: May 2021. I’m not really an oversharer. Much.

What I post: Pretty Dean and Jensen pictures. Great shots of Sam and Dean. The occasional wincest art. Wincest fic recommendations. The occasional recap or essay.

Last thing I googled: “deficiency caused by corn consumption” (answer: Pellagra). I was talking to a friend about how skeptical I am of all supplements. But I did mention that Pellagra was a real problem in the US south in the early 1900s.

Do I get asks: Once? Apparently my air of mystery is off-putting.

Following: 105

Average hours of sleep: 7 if I’m lucky. I tend to wake up in the middle of the night and then I can’t turn my brain off. My “favorite” is rehearsing conversations; or rehearsing explaining the history of the Tudors or network routing to an imaginary audience.

Instruments: My favorite is singing. But I did play electric bass for a little while. I wasn’t very good, but I was proud of myself for singing and playing at the same time in the terrible garage band I was in. We never played live. We covered The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, U2, Donovan, The Cars, Devo, Arctic Monkeys, and so on. Our previous lineup was an obscure psychedelia cover band. I can’t believe I sang “Mind Flowers.”

What I’m wearing: I’m almost always overdressed, which isn’t really the “look” around here. My uniform is a jersey wrap dress. I have like 30 of them in various prints. The secret is that they’re really comfortable. Beats yoga pants.

Dream job: I used to dream about being a home decorator or house flipper. But I know that if I had to cater to other people’s tastes, I’d hate it. I don’t know that there’s any money in that anyway.

Dream trip: Japan. I’m a big fan of classic Japanese cinema. But a few things: I’m fat, and I would feel insecure about my size. Also my back sucks. Also, my husband hates crowds. Also, expensive. Also, I really like comfort.

Nationality: American

Favorite songs: Didn’t we already list favorite bands? I don’t really like the current hit makers. I kind of think when old fogies listen to the latest music it’s a little try-hard.

Last book I read: Consider Phlebus by Iain M. Banks. I’ve read it a few times. I’ve been in a fan-fiction hole for a couple of years now, so my book reading has really slowed down. I love science fiction, and mysteries to a lesser extent. I’m a huge fan of Jack Vance. I’m looking forward to the next Naomi Novik book. My book club book is The Lost Apothecary (I am always really skeptical about reading “best seller” type books, because they aren’t always to my taste. I did like A Gentleman in Moscow, which was one of those. And now Ewan McGregor (❤️) is going to star in the series!) Queued up: Bad Sex, the Fever of the World and a lot more. @lovetheirloves mentioned rereading the Raven Boys, so I might do so too. The weird thing is I recently loaded all of my favorite wincest fics on my Kobo, and it’s weird seeing The Light of Munin next to The Lincoln Highway.

3 fictional universes I’d live in: Middle Earth. I was pretty entranced by the Lord of the Rings back in the day. Similarly, I loved the Ursula LeGuin book The Beginning Place, and I wanted to pass over the creek into that twilight world. I’m not thinking of a third…

tagging: @digitalmeowmix @bloodwritesfic @runsquidling @mvdeanw @amoreanonyname @fandom-hoarder @fictionallemons @killabeezish @bangingpatchouli @zxroh

#tag games #about me

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scarletlizzard · 16 days

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so tired I keep forgetting to hit submit on these asks 😀

cotton eye Joe????? 😭😭😭😭

that’s so funny tho probably my favorite category thus far!

I am like a quarter of the way in but I did hear the Icarus reference 💀💀💀💀 she’s right tho lmaooo I’ve never seen bladerunner, however

Damn thank you for catching me up 🫡 How was your day?

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Yeah, what do y'all know about Cotton Eye Joe?! Seriously, y'all do know about it, right? 👀

Oh my god I'm glad I could give a good one!!

Hahaha, I've been WAITING for you to hear the Icarus reference! When I listened to it I IMMEDIATELY thought of you

I've seen it maybe once when I was younger lmaooo, still watched the whole episode though 🤠

No problem, big guy. Literally anything for you!

Ohhhh it was a day! All good though, what about you? 🫶

#scarletlizzard asks #🧊 anon

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xirae · 1 year

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Thinking Through What Makes Battleship Potemkin Work

I’ve never been much of a movie person, but I am a “media” person persay, I just like to constantly work to expand my experience, which is quite literally to just push my experience of anything - movies, books, music - all over the place. It means that I have an attraction to what is considered “good” bc what the critics like is often viscerally different than a large majority of what you’d see in the movies these days, with exceptions like Bladerunner or the Godfather. So when the Sight and Sound 100 came out, it was like a honey pot for me. And I wasn’t wrong - it’s coming with a lot of old movies that feel very different than what I’m used to. For whatever reason, I started with Battleship Potemkin

I am not a film student or anything, so before I ever hit the books for this, I do want to think myself about what makes Battleship Potemkin work; when I watched it, I couldn’t help but feel like it couldn’t be made today - and not just bc the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore or w/e, but because the conventions of the silent film worked in its favor, and very few films today take a black and white and/or silent approach (I can think of a few exceptions, but not many). A part of me fears that I merely enjoyed it for how strikingly different it is, that it’s mere difference is what made it exciting food for thought, yet I genuinely think I have some fair observations on how some silent film conventions add mood and emphasis in the film and bolster its themes of working class revolution.

The first trait that’s very noticeable to me is the movement and frame rate of the film. I noticed a lot of movement came across as a bit fast, with a lot of small skips and jumps in the actors’ movement. While my guess is it’s a technical limitation, it did help to add urgency and speed to the film itself, which added urgency to its theme of revolution. Many scenes show the vast number of the "good guys” - the ships workers, the townspeople - and how they outnumber their oppressors. With how fast they move as a result of the framerate and skips, the masses feel almost as fluid as the sea around them, able to swallow the oppressors at any moment should they so choose. In scenes such as the mutiny and the massacre at the steps, the frame skips feel visceral and add a great urgency to the atmosphere. In this way, the strength of the working class and their immediate struggle against the oppressor class are very literally felt by the viewer

I also enjoyed the use of music, which is a freedom of the silent film is that nothing, not even a step, can be heard, the viewer only experiences the whatever musical arrangements are provided. A lot of movies today make excellent use of their soundtracks at moments with fairly minimal or patterned sound in the “acting sphere” (Run Lola Run when she runs to a pumping EDM beat), but I will argue this is a particular extreme of complete silence on one end, control on the other. Battleship makes excellent use of its music, particularly noticeable in the steps massacre. Rather than hear the running, screaming, and shooting of the massacre, viewers only hear the musical arrangement, giving the producers full control of the mood of the moment. It’s a bit nuanced what the shift in mood is from a choice to include the chaotic sound effects of a massacre - which would easily induce fear and panic - but I do believe there’s a shift that enables a little more passivity from the audience. Rather than be in the massacre themselves, the idea is to have the audience watch and be outraged such that they cheer on the revolution, so my theory is that the music, while just as urgent as being within the massacre, induces more indignation and righteous fury, a push forward for the audience rather than away. Witness this evil, witness it !!!! I’d have to listen again to get more clear thoughts though.

The last convention I noticed is the text and dialogue screens. Similar to the orchestra, it’s a very controlled approach to setting the scene, maybe even brute and direct. The film makers choose specifically what dialogue gets chosen, what details get emphasized, very short and brief statements that give the audience exactly what they need. Even though they are brute, I think there is a lot of intricacy and nuance to be had with text screens, which I won’t fully elaborate right now. It’s just tough to articulate. One trait I like is that they can link text to images just like a tumblr post with a caption below. They get tricky once you do more formal analysis of the movie, whether the dialogue can be “seen” on screen through moving mouths, whether this happens before or after or at all, what sorts of space in the movie is created or filled in, does it temporarily connect to the future or the past... I think title screens can be used to great effect, but to fully understand them would definitely take more formal analysis of specific scenes. In the case of Battleship, all I can say is it gave emphasis on the theme of revolution, giving us the specific words or dialogue we needed, and at that concisely - All for one, and one for all!

Black and white itself I think would take another movie to look at. Right now, I am thinking Persona did very well with its black and white, it really affected its lighting. But this is mostly about Battleship. This is my post, hopefully I got my thoughts out at least somewhat decently. Becoming a film guy now, trying to get my brain running as well and not spoon feed me. I want to get better and better at expressing my thoughts as well.

#personal studies #long #film

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seawitch62 · 2 years

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See What I See

Where eyes are shut, nothing can be seen.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!.

-- Roy Batty. Bladerunner.

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As we descend the abyss of our own demons, isolation grips with talons of steel.

Segregation from the masses only heightens our feelings of being alone.

Cut off from the fears and pains and torments of others, we stumble.

The outer shell, a facade, the mask, the skin that covers our vessels, our bodies.

Solo we sleepwalk through our existence, the fragile strands that connect us to the network, fraying as time passes.

Struggling to prevail, hoping we can make a connection, someone sees beneath our masks.

Transparency is not afforded within our society, it's the secret that is hidden, buried deep, it's our most vulnerable self.

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Toby, is struggling, as a man in his middle thirties, he is troubled by his wasted youth, drugs leading to incarceration.

He wants to do the right thing, he has worked hard to keep himself sober, he can not deny it was difficult.

Times he nearly went down the path of self destruction, but he fought, fought for himself.

He succeeded, but lately life is conspiring against him or so he feels.

His job, his ex, his current and family.

All his plans seem to be crashing around him, all his hard work for naught.

Life was simpler when drugs

wiped out anxieties, the only thing he had to worry about was his next fix.

The blurred memories of what he did for his nirvana, haunts his dreams, pushing the memories back into the storage unit of his mind. They resurface the thievery, the lies, the guilt.

The denial.

Today is difficult for Toby, he wants the sweet serenity of oblivion the kind the drugs give.

He feels the itch, it consumes him, and the hunger.

His self control is weakening.

Lost in thoughts of self damnation he walks, hoping he can rebuild his resolve to resist the temptation.

Toby stops, lights a Marlboro cigarette, the nicotine calms him if only briefly.

As he takes in his surroundings he notices he is outside the office of an optometrist.

Looking through the window he sees eyewear on display.

"The Mind's Eye", funny name for a business that deals with glasses he muses.

For reasons he does not understand he walks through the door.

Toby checks out all the eyewear and finds himself, lured, drawn to a pair of glasses with a black frame.

The eyewear bewitched him, feeling a compulsion to try on the glasses, knowing he does not need them.

His cravings for drugs forgotten, he feels compelled to wear these glasses.

"How can I be of assistance today sir?" a friendly voice enquiries.

Fumbling for an appropriate response, the voice continues,

"I see you're interested in the Black Grant frame".

The sales clerk hands him the frames, and directs him to the mirror.

Toby stands transfixed, his reflected image showing his confusion.

He is suddenly assaulted with images, memories, emotions that he has never experienced.

The reflective image is his, but it's not him, not fully.

Grant.

"Who is Grant? He murmurs.

A morbid scene confronts his senses, a man, a young man, with the mask of death apparent.

The image of death.

The surroundings are a meth house.

Toby Knows them well.

The body decaying, insect activity busily working on the corpse.

Grant.

Toby is positive it is Grant, how he knows this is a mystery, but it's Grant.

Slowly unfolding before his eyes, he watches in horror, as the body slowly rots.

Addicts come and go, oblivious to the stench and blind to the vessel that was once Grant.

Finally, he sees the Police and the coroner put the remains in a body bag.

"John Doe"

Just another meth addict.

No one will claim the body, for all those in Grant's life, have either died or given up on him.

Toby yanks the glasses off stepping back, the eyewear topples to the floor.

The sales assistant is nowhere to be found, Toby runs out of the premises.

That night, he remembers what he saw and what he felt.

"It can not be real," he exclaims.

Dreams evade his sleep, nightmares would be a more appropriate word.

The next morning, he decides he has to know if this is real or imagined.

He finds himself staring through the window of a vacant landscape.

The premises is full of cobwebs and dust.

Totally confused, knowing this is the correct address.

He asks the neighboring businesses who tell him that the space he refers to has been empty for years.

Drugs now forgotten, the cravings and hunger, dispelled.

His will resolved, he decides to time to recommence his AA meetings.

•

'The Mind's Eye' has now opened its door in another section of town, waiting for the next customer.

#short story #short fiction #writerscommunity #writers and readers #writers on tumblr #eyewear fic

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aotopmha · 3 years

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Is there any shows/movies you watch that arent anime that you like? Like cartoons, live action, etc? Have you heard of RWBY?

I used to watch stuff more actively, but I've fallen off.

But I've also kind of fallen off from anime/manga, too.

For ongoing manga for example, I now actively only follow One Piece and Dragon Ball Super and even then I fell behind OP for quite a while.

I fell behind My Hero Academia and since it seems to be heading towards the ending, I've decided to go back to it once it is done; I've kind of grown to have much more satisfaction in binging stories.

I think it's only recently I've tried to get into some anime/manga series again but not many seem to be working. So much new stuff feels like it is without any Identity of its own.

But going back to series/movies (live action stuff?) I've been even worse about that stuff.

I think the last live action series I remember watching and really loving was the HBO Chernobyl series. I think it still had that Hollywood dramatisation flavour in there, but I think it was an incredibly good depiction of not only the disaster, but also the society that created it and as someone living in a former Soviet Union country, I still recognise some of those hallmarks of that society as still being present today and how the countries under the Soviet regime are influenced by that regime to this day.

It jogged some really interesting memories.

To anyone interested and not in the know, though definitely heavy explicit content warning for it. It was genuinely extremely nauseating and hard to watch at points.

I've actually always been drawn much more towards any kind of cartoon (from eastern to western to anime) than I have towards live action stuff, well, live action movies and series that is.

Everyone else around me have been into like Game of Thrones, House, Scrubs, Lost. A bunch of stuff besides that.

My sister was into like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bewitched (I think that's what the latter one with like the three witch women was called).

I sort of also caught like Xena the Warrior Princess and stuff when I was younger, all of these have been in my periphery, but I never really "paid attention" to them so to say.

From my childhood I have memories of some of movies like Home Alone and its sequel (they are in fact the only good ones), the Terminator movies (again only the first two are probably good), the Matrix movies (I kind of have a soft spot for all of them), a whole bunch of those dumb, probably not actually very good disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow.

A lot of horror. Like The Shining and Alien and schlock stuff like the Resident Evil movies). I remember a lot of space horror stuff, actually. A whole bunch of it came on after I stayed up for way too late and I probably was exposed to a lot of it much younger than I should've been.

But the thing with much of this stuff is that I've seen most of it only once and I don't remember most of it down to the detail.

I have not seen a bunch of the big "classics" like any of Stanley Kubrick's or David Lynch's stuff, "cult" stuff like Bladerunner or some of the "pop culture/nerd" stuff like any Star Trek series. I've never fully seen the Lord of the Rings movies for example, either, only bits and pieces.

There is so much stuff I know I haven't seen I'd like to eventually get to.

As for cartoons, from Disney I have at least some level of like for Mulan, the old and new Fantasia movies, Frozen, Hunchback of Notre Dame, but I also remember liking Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and Princess and the Frog in particular. Disney's stuff has the wierd effect of having sincerety in there, but at points being undercut by strange leaps of "this is definitely for children in this forced way now" to me.

From Pixar movies my favourites are Ratatouille, Wall-E, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. Pixar feels like a "fully sincere" Disney.

Hmm. There is also DreamWorks. Shrek and Ice Age, I think. Shrek is a meme. The first movie maybe has a positive message about appearance not mattering in there, but a lot of it is kind of wierd and mean-spirited. I think I genuinely like the first Ice Age movie.

Hmm. Then there is also Don Bluth who I think has memorable animation, but whose movies I have zero memories for.

Watched a bunch of Cartoon Network cartoons: Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Megas XLR (100% deserved more episodes btw, was a blast), Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack.

Old cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.

Spent much less time with Nickelodeon stuff, but I remember liking early Spongebob.

Futurama and early Simpsons were very good.

As for RWBY, I saw the first few episodes I think back when it dropped, but it was ugly and did nothing for me in terms of writing.

Felt something like an old Newgrounds series/a bad 3D animation I occasionally see around with equally bad fanfic writing.

Turns out I've consumed a lot of stuff and there is probably a whole bunch of stuff besides this I've consumed, too.

Thank you for the ask!

#Cartoons #TV series #Movies #Films #Asks

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gayregis · 3 years

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I still cant believe you've never seen LOTR

i want to read/watch it someday... i picked up one of the books when i was 14 but i only got like 4 pages in :( the prose was really dense and i got bored lol, in retrospect i should have kept reading but i didn’t... i remember a guy died and was getting buried on a boat?

come to think of it, here’s a list of popular pop culture that i’ve never seen/read/played, not even like half-watched when it was playing on tv or something:

lord of the rings / the hobbit / any tolkien stuff (want to look into)

harry potter (don’t want to look into, but i did see the... first spin off movie? where they’re in america? that was alright. jk rowling is gross though and i havent seen the original franchise).

star wars (maybe want to look into)

star trek (maybe want to look into)

dune (want to look into)

some assorted disney movies, the most prominent that comes to my mind is disney’s hercules (don’t want to look into)

shrek (want to look into)

pirates of the carribean (don’t want to look into)

the matrix (want to look into)

bladerunner (want to look into)

kubrick films like the shining (don’t want to look into) and 2001 a space odyssey (want to look into)

fallout (it’s practically sinful that i haven’t played fallout nv, i have a phobia of the apocalypse which makes it kinda difficult. though i want to look into it. i watched a playthrough of fo2 though but i remember only a little).

many classic video game franchises like mario, sonic, legend of zelda, street fighter, grand theft auto, halo, silent hill, resident evil, call of duty (though no one wants to play cod unless theyre like 13 and brainwashed by imperialism), the last of us (watched 2 episodes of a playthrough on youtube and. apocalypse phobia. yeah), bayonetta, far cry (though i watched a playthrough of fc4 but i forgot everything about it), red dead redemption

i’ve played a few hours each of assassin’s creed and dragon age inquisition, but not enough to feel like i actually have played the games

tbh if anyone wants to ask me if i’ve seen [x classic media] i’ll try to answer

#things that i have seen within the past few years and not as a kid but i liked:#alien / jurassic park(s) / the thing / adventure time / pokemon #ig also evangelion #ask #theworldisadumpster

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hotniatheron · 3 years

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i’ve never seen bladerunner, i’ve only watched good sci fi movies like zenon girl of the 21st century

#every time someone mentions bladerunner i'm like wot?#i've never seen fight club either

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chrisgiuliano · 4 years

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Imaginary & Real Cities

I’ve been reading Darran Anderson’s Imaginary Cities for a while now and am really enjoying it. I picked it up from a local used bookstore maybe in March or April of last year. It had a cool cover and an intriguing title, and the back cover description stated that it talks about possible and impossible cities, past cities, dream cities and future cities in a lucid, non-linear way and takes a lot of inspiration from one of my favorite books ever, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

The book’s been a lot to keep up with, as the amount of references and the lack of an index (though supposedly it’s on the website) can be enough to make your head spin. It’s caused me to start reading Plato’s The Republic, which I attempted but eventually gave up on in high school as well as Lewis Mumford’s The City In History, which has sat on my shelf for more than a year without so much as being cracked open. It also has me wanting to do a deeper dive into movies that use cities as characters or portray cities in a certain way, namely BladeRunner and some of the other futuristic/Sci-Fi/dystopia movies that are mentioned in the book, even though I’m not much of a fan of Sci-Fi.

One of the more interesting sections is where he mentions a few movies that were made in the 1920′s that serve as sketches of cities, They are Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, Lewis Mumford’s The City and Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (which is probably the most fun to watch with its weird camera angles and self-awareness/righteousness). Through some Wikipedia searching, I found that Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand made a similar film about New York called Manhatta. In all of these, the focal point is a day in the life of a city, with minimal or no narrative or explanation.

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis

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The City

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I’ve now seen all of them. I actually saw the Mumford one sometime last year. The differences between the cities are fascinating and they say a lot about what those cities were like at the time of their filming. In Berlin, the primary activities that the director focuses on are the daily commute, the ritual of shops opening and the daily laborers of the city. There’s important emphasis on the new train networks and a lot of street poetry, documentations of chance (or maybe planned) interactions that show the thousands of urban possibilities, the multitude of things that might happen when you live in a place where hundreds of thousands of people are clustered together. Both of the New York films, on the other hand (including Manhatta and one section of Mumford’s The City) are much more focused on buildings and architecture, emphasizing New York’s new-ness and metropolitan verve. Both Berlin and New York clearly emanate a certain energy in these films, though the New York moments show a city busy with the activity of building itself up, a process which would not stop for quite a while, more or less right up to its near-bankruptcy in the 70′s. Berlin, of course, would face its day of reckoning and need to re-build substantially after the second war, but it escaped WWI largely unscathed, at least as far as I know. The director of the Berlin film is much more concerned with the micro activity of the city as opposed to the macro activity that seemed so important to anybody observing New York at the same time. On the other hand, the cities portrayed in Man with a Movie Camera are the Soviet cities of Kiev, Moscow, Odessa and Kharkov. It’s a telling portion of Soviet/Russian history, as the movie was made only a few years after Lenin’s death and the cities are awash in messages about workers and the proletariat, devoid of the blatant totalitarianism of the Stalin era that Americans most often associate with the Soviet Union and the Russians. It’s no doubt an interesting glimpse of what life might have been like had Lenin not died an early death at 54, a point which Anderson himself makes in the book and which I had never quite considered before. The Soviet cities of that era were primarily concerned with industrialization, and the film makes that more than clear in the powerful shots of smokestacks, trains, coal mines, factories and bars and theaters adorned with the word “Proletarian”.

As always, I’m most fascinated by New York (probably because I used to live there) and I can’t imagine what seeing New York for the first time in the 1920′s must have felt like. Lucky for us, we have Metropolis, which Fritz Lang said was inspired by his first impressions of New York as he came in on a boat, according to Anderson. I imagine it must have felt something like my first time in East Asia, where the newer cities have such a vibrant energy that they make American cities look like quiet little hamlets by comparison.

I was really excited when I saw that Manhattan was made Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, both artists whom I admire and have even written about on this blog before. I can’t imagine any duo better equipped to document New York on film in those days, as they were pioneers of the Precisionism movement which devoted a large amount of its energy to documenting the changing state of the American city. I only wish they might have made a follow up to this film a decade or so later when the great Art Deco towers of Midtown started racing each other towards the sky. I also wish we had these sorts of urban documentaries of the Soviet cities and Berlin after the second World War. The importance of capturing a place over time is part of why I take photographs - though I don’t expect that my photos will serve as an exhaustive historical record, the visual documentation of the city is an important part of understanding why the places we live are the way they are and teach us so much about the future and how they might evolve.

Manhatta

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Man with a Movie Camera

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#art history #lewic mumford #darran anderson #dziga vertov #constructivism #documentary

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judehayward · 4 years

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THE CHARACTER STATISTICS

FULL NAME — jude hayward (him n his parents dnt kno his middle name they lost his birth certificate n forgot what they wrote)

NICKNAME — judas

D.O.B. — 13th march 1997

LINK TO THEIR PINTEREST BOARD OR TAG ON YOUR BLOG — tag n pinterest

STAR SIGN / MOON & RISING — pisces / taurus / virgo

MBTI — intp (the logician)

MORAL ALIGNMENT — chaotic neutral

MARITAL STATUS & SEXUALITY — single n bisexual

LANGUAGES — jst english :/ boring

TALENTS / HOBBIES — painting, drawing, piano, bass guitar, cooking (hates it tho never does it bc he jst doesn’t hv the energy bt he cn do it quite well), composing, smoking, used to b decent at baseball when he first moved to san fran bt....... no work ethic 😔 didn’t stick at it 😔, reading, narrating pigeons outside of his window like david attenborough

TOP 5 MUSICIANS — the cure, elliott smith, glass animals, the smiths, metronomy.... bonus additions r neutral milk hotel, the national, wolf alice, mac demarco, foals, slaughter beach dog, the psychedelic furs...... cldn’t just list 5 i’m sry. (am i?)

FAVOURITE BOOK — i think he likes virginia woolf stuff a lot.... probably rly likes on the road by jack kerouac too....... i’ve nt read any of this i jst Know frm quotes n things....

FAVOURITE FILM & TV SHOW — hereditary, the room, beautiful boy, the truman show, bladerunner, green room, fight club (:///// he’s not One Of Those bt he jst relates w the insomnia aspect), E.T....... then fr tv um...... mr. robot, breaking bad, peep show, walking dead (until it got Shit), nathan for you, the eric andre show.

FAVOURITE VIDEO GAME — the tony hawk games.... red dead redemption when he’s depressed sometimes he jst rides around on a horse nt even doing a mission jst smoking n galloping...... in silence..... silent hill n resident evil..... think he prob wld hv played life is strange too..... n CoD zombies when younger bt thts it.......

WHAT DID THEY DO THIS PAST SUMMER? — went bk to sheffield to oversee his parents gallery n also catch up w childhood friends n things :/ it was Bad

WHERE HAVE THEY TRAVELLED? — jst various places in england, san francisco, lovell n amsterdam i think

DO THEY TAKE ANY PRESCRIPTIONS? — ya he’s on 200mg of sertraline atm.... idk wht it’s called in america... an anti-depressant basically... he’s tried like 87274723 diff ones bt. :/

DO THEY HAVE ANY DIAGNOSIS’S? — depression (severe) and insomnia... probably mre undiagnosed :/

FICTIONAL CHARACTER THEY ARE MOST LIKE? — ok he isn’t a fictional character bt his biggest inspiration is robert pattinson honestly............. i cn also see nick miller (new girl) in him............ mulder frm the x files (dnt watch bt frm screencaps etc) n also ik he’s a real person again bt the like Persona nathan fielder puts on in nathan for you..... vry deadpan n absurd..... reminds me of him

ARE THEY EMPLOYED? WHERE DO THEY WORK? — no job Babey altho mayb i’ll change tht fr the spice

WERE THEY POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL? — he ws invited to all the parties bt he wsn’t like a Top Dog or anything....... jst along fr the ride

DO THEY DO DRUGS? ya

DRINK? — ya

SMOKE CIGARETTES? — so many ya’s. so little time.

SMOKE WEED? — so much. Sorrr pls give ur lungs a break.....

WHERE WERE THEY BORN? WHERE DID THEY GROW UP? — sheffield, england!! he mostly grew up there bt also spent some yrs in san francisco. his parents were weird n unreliable abt relocating between galleries so it ws a bit of a train wreck tbh......

DO THEY PLAN TO GO TO GRAD SCHOOL? — no

WHAT ARE THEIR PLANS POST-GRADUATION? — jude does nt..... hv any plans fr his life at all........... none at all...... doesn’t look any of u in the eyes.................. :////////////////

PARENTS NAMES — harry n colette

DO THEY HAVE SIBLINGS? NAMES & AGES? — no

DO THEY HAVE PETS? TYPES & NAMES? — he hs a tortoise named herb who he wld never confess to loving dearly..... lets him roam free as he pleases.... feeds him slices of cucumber

ARE THEY RELIGIOUS? WHAT IS THEIR RELIGION IF SO? — no he’s like..... if god ws real he’d b a cunt.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THEY SLEPT WITH? — hmmMMM..... mayb like.... 30 something

WHAT VEHICLE DO THEY DRIVE? IF THEY DON’T DRIVE, HOW DO THEY TRAVEL AROUND TOWN? — idk cars bt i imagine the paint kind of peeling faded dusty blue-ish grey myb like.... a slightly older model...... splutters smoke the stereo jams a lot........ he doesn’t care he’s like the bastard hs character............ probably brks dwn a lot n is parked mre than driven. usually gets the bus

DESCRIBE THEIR FASHION — just doesn’t give much of a fk throws whtever on...... usually some flannel shirt or white tshirt...... variation of trousers....... jean jacket or corduroy one......... dr martens.............. sometimes plaid pj pants in public i rly cnt emphasise hw little he cares.............

DO THEY PREFER TO BE BEHIND THE CAMERA OR IN FRONT OF IT? — behind

DO THEY BELIEVE ANY OF THE STORIES ABOUT RADCLIFFE? WHICH ONES? — he finds the undergrounds a bit creepy i think bt he doesn’t rly like enclosed spaces so cld just b tht.................. probably thinks the secret society hs some weight to it

DO THEY THINK THE MOTHMAN IS HOT? — open to the idea of him being a handsome fellow................. perhaps muscular in physique...... striking bastard chap......

A QUOTE THAT DESCRIBES THEM — “He was more like a drizzle in a drought, a fast glance of the view as you’re speeding down the highway. He was there, but he never was.” or “There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.“

A SONG THAT THEY WOULD RELATE TO — cnt pick between agnes by glass animals n spanish sahara by foals so..... slaps both dwn

#ruhqtask #ruhqtask001

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galadrieljones · 5 years

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8 people i’d like to get to know better

tagged by @thevikingwoman. thanks, friend ^_^

Name/Alias: galadrieljones, but you can just call me gala

Birthday: April 8

Zodiac Sign: Aries. But apparently there are new zodiac signs? And now I’m a Pisces? Idk I think it makes more sense. I’ve never felt like an Aries.

Height: 5′3″

Hobbies: video games, digital art

Favorite Color: yellow

Favorite Book: There are many but I usually say Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I also really like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Bleh it’s so beautiful.

Last Song I Heard: “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie. Idk why I’ve been throwing back to them lately. This song was popular I think when I was in college. It is kind of my Arthur/Albert song now.

Last Film I Watched: I think Bladerunner 2049 and tbh it was the best new movie I’ve seen in like several years. I was shocked because Ryan Gosling is kind of a one-note actor imho, but in this case, that actually worked perfectly for him. Also it was really just a tragic love story between him and his OS and I think that’s beautiful. It was 50x better than Her by Spike Jonze.

Inspiration for my muse(s): I’m not really sure how I manage my inspiration. Or where it comes from. I just get feelings about things and then I dive in face first.

Dream Job: Changes a lot. Usually it’s just a writer. Sometimes though I’d like to make a video game. Like I’d like to be Neil Druckmann if that’s okay.

Meaning Behind the URL: Gilly Jones is an old character of mine who I wrote a bunch of stories about in graduate school. Gilly is short for Galadriel, like in the children’s book The Great Gilly Hopkins, hence galadriel jones. Gala, as a nickname, was originally given to me by @whosafraidofthebigbaddreadwolf <3

i’ll tag @morgan-arthur @zacklover24 @tex-studmister @gentle-outlaw @outlawers @bearly-tolerable @wrenbee @jarbaje @segadoraa and @goldenentertainment (only if you want!!) ^.^

#about me

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smilesandsimplicities · 4 years

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I was tagged by @greatmedjourney

I’ve never in my life been tagged in something so that was fun! Thanks!!

Birthday: Oct

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 163 cm (5'4")

Last song listened to: Happy by Oh Wonder, but also just their entire new album (no one else can wear your crown)

Hobbies: running - I run most days and used to run varsity during undergrad I haven’t posted about it much on here but I’m thinking I will sign up for my second marathon in may

Favourite colour: green

Last movie 👀: I honestly don’t remember the last movie I watched in its entirety, the last movie I fell asleep watching was bladerunner 2049

Favourite 📚: Paper towns, John Green - It might not be the best literary work, but at the time in my life when I read it, it had a profound impact and taught me a lot about life, and the world

Dream job: as a kid the answer was actor, as a semi-adult the answer is youtuber (kidding, sort of) but the realistic answer is Obstetrics and Gynecology, but also considering Cardiac Surg right now

Meaning behind URL: lol none except that I wanted an alliteration

#me #aboutme #medicine #CC3 #medical school

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theskyexists · 4 years

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watching bladerunner 2049

great environmentally destroyed earth there

i believe that the blatant humanity of AI in this film - as well as their blatant ability to love and feel empathy (a huge divergence from the book) while still being treated as inferior and disposable objects is a comment on how we do that to Other humans without blinking.

though also, they can project a hologram, then solidify the hologram - but they can’t clean up the damn atmosphere? like really. I guess that can only be explained by an elite trying to stay on top by keeping capital firmly in their own hands. i was looking at those solar farms and just going....how is that bringing in any energy in this dust?

also the problem i have with Ryan Gosling as this lead dude who’s in love with his adjustable AI hologram is that i never buy him as capable of love in that way. ever. at all. (so possibly it’s the right choice? anyway this whole thing is creepy)

yeah it’s supposed to be like: lol this was just a fantasy

‘a sentimental skin job’ - evidence of funerary practice, of altruistic behaviour (of grief, of empathy?) he says sorry even though by society’s standards the robot’s owed no courtesy? then he thinks the dude ate the baby - like thats not more insulting

so what separates robots from humans is not - eating food, drinking liquor, getting hurt, feeling empathy - but the ability to reproduce??? (but doesnt he need to sleep?)

the argument really is that being born = having a soul? lol thats a crazy wall to build a society on but there’s been stupider and more arbitrary ones. again, maybe that’s the point

a LOT of product placement in this.

it keeps to the same formula though. an investigator who is forced to forego his own empathy to ‘do the job’. Meeting with the local robot company, meeting the secretary in charge made to appeal. etc. etc. i think that’s pretty cool.

this building is very pharaoic. great set

eyyy a reference to the book. a lil origami sheep (got what he wanted)

im getting the impression from this film that ‘androids’ haven’t got a metal thing in their body and they’re just clones. which honestly i also got that sense from the book so that makes sense

ah so the android was based on himself (he looks ryan gosling like? or can i not distinguish white guys?). and this one is based on the K’s configuration of Joi.

Naturally the android to be ‘inspected’ is a woman who gets to be naked and weak and shit.

‘Every leap of civilisation was built off the back of a disposable workforce’ - great. (the film does a good job being like: hm yeah but the world is shit now so how is that leap so super ?)

Yikes i mean uh i know it’s like a commentary on disposable bodies and people as chattel and women as ‘reproducers’ but they’re portraying him and all his fuckin self-important self-righteous power-hungry megalomaniac rich bitch speeches as a fuckin sermon worth listening to

and if they don’t take him down in this film i will be mad.

and also i wanted to stab his eyes out the moment he put his hand on her belly but unfortunately i get the sense he’s going to stab HER

but well they’re still sticking with the book formula which is still clever, the Investigator being in love with some AI and then having to kill the android that looks just like her because the company doesn’t keep to the law and shit

- i hope they push just a lil bit different since they’ve clearly established the main premise of the book is the opposite in this film - androids DO have empathy, they DO dream of electric sheep (in this case, electric Joi)

I sure hope ‘Luv’ gets to murder Wallace for what he does to this baby android.

I know he’s a rapist capitalist sadist god complex creepbitch but goddamn i sure hope that the movie MEANT for that reading or i will be mad.

he literally did nothing but creep on a CHILD android and then murder her FOR NOTHING. wow. i’ve never wanted androids to take over and kill a human so badly before. This sure is the opposite of Terminator.

i liked mackenzie davis’ performance here.

‘am i the only one who can see the fuckin sunrise, here?’ uhhhh why are you shouting at the android? like, where the fuck are your human officers and bosses? i love how apparently a police boss can just drink on the job? bc sci fi noir. not that ryan gosling manages that. i JUST noticed that she has bare legs, and now they cut to putting them on display. this is going to end badly (im feeling like there’s going to be some sort of sexual power abuse. edit: she was testing his humanity and he deliberately failed teh test to stop her interest in him)

why the fuck would they implant that memory. (but he thinks that it might be real) (but then how would he have ended up there at the police station)

theres a lot of rain in this world

we now move onto the marginal humans that live in the waste, discarded. and how they destroyed without blinking by a marginal android operating on the orders of the richest man alive.

i have to say that watching this movie makes me so happy about trees and blue skies

the marginal children - processing the waste - sick, abused, enslaved.... here all white...supervisor...black. interesting choice. (all this suffering for ‘civilisation’ - the nickel for the colony ships - this is a lot more spicy than the book - a lot more realistic about who suffers and dies for that kind of thing)

starts to seem like he really is the kid - these ‘orphanage’ stairs look a lot like that memory

Gosling is great for this role bc he doesn’t really have to move his face. but god the pace of this film is so SLOW! had to skip a bit of his slow shuffle to the horse man. ‘ohhh i was a real child, from loving parents, oh no i killed my dad! after killing my mum through childbirth! fuck! im the child that im hunting! oh shit! hey i have a soul!’

you’re special because actually you had agency all along and you’ve been using it to murder people wink

i dont understand the AI bit in this. don’t understand why they would hide him with so much care that he’d know nothing about who he was and kill his dad. like. surely that wasn’t the idea. also if the AI is Wallace’s why can’t Luv hack it. also i really kind of dislike her male fantasy self.

I like this Doctor. she is very very sweet and lovely. i dont really know why nobody would come visit her.

so we can read memories, implant memories, project memories not photo realistically ACTUALLY realistically, we can construct memories from the imagination but we can’t - i repeat - we can’t clean the damn atmosphere?? i mean yes yes yes this is... a perfect example of how capitalism will not necessarily put money into tech that is you know - a good idea for us all collectively but rather into something that can be sold but god DAMN

manipulation eyyyy. already exercising his freedom of mind

really. an android selling sex to an android??? what the fuck lol. it’s a clone implanted with fake memories selling sex to a clone. yeah yeah yeah society has deemed them inhuman purely because they were built but THE POINT IS THEY are human in literally every other sense and controls them through law and brain make-up and then eliminating everybody who grows their brains from baseline? (why are they even paid?? is that supposed to be pavlovian?)

i really don’t understand what this AI is about. i just can’t get over that this really doesn’t seem like a love story

he almost died and then this AI springs sex on him lol. i really. i just really don’t care for this story and that’s possibly because Ryan Gosling is just so fuckin bad at selling any kind of love story like his eyes are always SO DEAD

oh my god im only halfway. oh my god. THIS FILM IS ALMOST THREE HOURS LONG. jfc

this is such an extremely male fantasy it bores me to death. im a dude who’s badass, powerful, controlled, SPECIAL, also told im special by my very humany AI gf who i installed exactly to my tastes, she desperately wants to have sex with me FOR ME because im just so cool and wonderful despite being so tortured and possessing eyes like a dead fish.

let’s spend 20 mins on undressing another two women in this film as we, the viewers, and i, the male protagonist just stand and watch. let’s re-emphasise how she’s just a self-learning ai

there’s light? warm light?

and then they have the women fight each other ? cool cool cool. im not saying it’s not realistic, im just saying it’s boring. i thought Mackenzi was going to proposition K for the resistance

still not sure why Luv hasn’t hacked her already. first time the romance feels slightly real

I guess Luv is indoctrinated. i still like police boss don’t hurt her. i mean obv she’s terrible but so is everybody else. she cried...again. so she kills from anger - not because she had to. she kills her the same way Wallace killed the android. i’d love to read a lil analysis about this. later. women-on-women violence

oh she really DID know where he was but kept it from Luv. why? was she willing to die for him? no. her dignity? maybe. The women in this are mysteries. also why is he still allowed to use the car and drone when he’s suspended. that’s pretty fuckin stupid.

hmm giant statues of naked women WITH heels on posed sexily and unthreateningly. im just saying. this is all super psychoanalysis galaxy brain.

gasp there is a real live bee. thats a book call back

and a classic perfectly intact building

HALF OF THIS FILM IS JUST RYAN GOSLING SHUFFLING THROUGH STRIKING LANDSCAPES AND SETS FROWNING JUST SLIGHTLY

it’s got the opposite problem of the book: it is SLOW AS FUCK

how does he know what a piano is

wow K’s really good at de-escalating. why not just be honest. so he got shot, blown up and then? still fine walking. lol they just gotta show off that he’s still a bladerunner! (where the fuck did that name come from...)

here you’re bleeding in your face. ok? he’s also bleeding from the shotwound maybe? that was definitely implied that he got shot.

and K’s also really bad at asking questions lol. thats because all he ever did was shoot people. anyway this is boring again, these two fighting about nothing - some kind of testerony bullshit about zero stakes - but apparently just screaming at the man will help

also im not sure why he assumed Deckard was the father.

harrison ford delivered that well.

‘to strangers’ i fuckin hate ryan gosling i don’t know if its because hes a bad actor or because his interpretation is so shit

so Deckard left, Rachel died in childbirth (really? lol. god do i want to fuckin consume a woman’s story about goddamn dying in childbirth) and Sapper left him at the orphanage? but how the fuck did he then get slotted into police service all official like??? doesnt make sense except Mackenzie’s network’s got something to do with it

ok so it was implied but now confirmed taht androids come with enhancements

oh nooooo she kills his love :( awww. i can’t feel for him at all lol

but she almost kills the kid she so badly wanted to find

i wonder why she’s so sadistic. probably because she learned from wallace. but all the womb - woman - beautifying - controlled by man - in fear of him - in thrall of him - killing other women again and again sadistically while killing men coldly is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i just dont care for it you know

also this AI woman turned out to have NO role in the movie except to lavish attention on this dude (make him seem capable of love except ryan gosling can’t move his face) and then be fridged lol

so why does she let him live? fuckin bullshit

look, i like the aesthetic and the world but god the director is wayy too in love with it - SPEED THIS SHIT UP

so actually - if Rachel died in childbirth how is she holding the baby in the pic

“That baby meant that we are more than just slaves”

This could be really cool - like - taking back the means of reproduction!!! This is how we will become a PEOPLE. Freedom through female fertility as a symbol. But because uhhhhh this is all a Male Fantasy it feels decidedly icky and not like that at all. Like, why did they make the kid male? That...makes no sense? if Rachel was the only one who could bear children bc of her ...genes? Why the fuck would you centre the story on somebody who cannot take up that legacy, cannot be that symbol? It’s totally weird

OHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH!!!!! ok lol.

he thought he was the kid but the girl is....but uh then why was there an exact copy. as a red herring? THEN HOW DID HE GET from the orphanage to the fuckin police???

Is Luv supposed to be the girl though? because they keep killing all the female characters so it’s like, uhuh. it’s not mackenzie bc like thatd be silly huh. i mean it would be stupid but they could pull that

if they think he can get at deckard, why not get him to shoot wallace

how did he get a fuckin police car lololololol

ah these super high tech hoovercars have zero defenses against ??? what is he even shooting at them?

Luv’s actress does something very interesting to her voice when she gets emotional or shouts orders - kind of monstrous and inhuman

well he certainly hit them perfectly

WHERE DID HE GET THE POLICE CAR?

“I’m the best one” yeah - i.e. so I cannot be killed by my master as he’s made me do to so many

why do they always INSIST on men killing women by choke. don’t be so fucking stupid. if she can push his head under water she can punch his lights out. SHE LITERALLY JUST HAD A KNIFE - SHE COULD HAVE STABBED HIM IN THE EYE

why would she waste air grunting. she doesn’t even fake him out. i know they’re human so thats counter-instinctual but like, she’s supposed to be an incredible fighter. it’s the same thing with how they have her do all these kicks and he stays standing because women = agility, men = endurance, and then he punches her once and she goes flying. THEY”RE ANDROIDS HARRY. WHY WOULD YOU BUILD GENDER BULLSHIT IN???

so how many women did we see die extremely explicitly and/or aesthetically and/or plot/significantly so far? raechal (childbirth), the android baby (one cut to the womb), the police boss (one cut to the womb), AI girl (one crunch), Luv (one shot and one strangle-drown).

Ryan Gosling can get shot, blown up, killer punched 7 times, get blown up again, have his lung get perforated by schrapnel, be kicked to shit 5 times. he gets a bandage on his nose and takes it off again so thats a total reset apparently. He’s then shot again, kicked to shit again, sliced in the hand, stabbed in a place thats clearly deadly, half drowned - and he STILL KILLS THIS ANDROID WOMAN. HE STILL KILLS THE BEST WALLACE HAS EVER MADE.

WHAT?!!??!?!!

the men get shot from a distance, bombed from a distance, shot from a distance.

im sorry but this sucks.

and then ryan gosling swims all the way to land.

lol why does this script try to convince me that in this advanced fuckin tech society they wouldn’t be able to check for Deckard’s body??? and then he brings him to a place that’s monitored??

oh right the Doctor was the daughter. so.....they lied about her auto-immune disease? she knew that she had given him her memory? why did they do that? im still not clear on that???

how tf and whytf would they send the girl to the orphanage and let her get beat up by some boys, and only then send her to some perfect chamber

ryan gosling always plays such emotionally constipated characters - they never wanna have anything good

THAT’S IT!?!! they’re not going to explain shit?? they’re implying K just died?? leaving Deckard to get picked up by police and Wallace to find the Doctor and and THEY DIDN’T EVEN KILL CREEP EXTROARDINAIRE FUCKING WALLACE???

All they did was kill the abused slave by fucking choke?????

#anyway this was one of the worst movies i ever saw it's literally just cool tech and cool sets and shit acting and sexism #my stuff #vidi

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hazyheel · 5 years

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NJPW G1 Climax 2019 Day 8 Review

We started up with Toru Yano vs. Juice Robinson. These two have met twice, both in the G1 and both with Robinson winning. Juice was very skeptical to even lock up in the early portion of this match, while Yano desperately tried for some rollups Juice wasn’t having any of his cheating ways and was mostly annoyed, but Yano nearly snuck a countout win early on, thanks to some athletic tape tying him to the barricade. Yano kept trying to hit a low blow to get the win, which only angered Robinson more and more. After Robinson caught a low blow, he nailed the left hand to god and hit pump friction for the win. Robinson: 6, Yano: 4.

After the match, Robinson shook Yano’s hand as he lied on the ground.

Grade: C-. Normally I really like the stupid Yano matches in the G1, but this was not really a fun one. They didn’t really blend together super well, and they didn’t go long enough to be very funny. That’s fine though, they won’t all be winners. Good for Juice to keep winning his matches.

Then we had Taichi vs. Hirooki Goto. The record going into this match was 2:1 in favor of gotoBefore the match, Taichi made sure to beat the crap out of one of the LA Dojo guys, because Goto trained there for the G1. These two had a rivalry over the NEVER Openweight championship late last year, and that rivalry was renewed in this match. And naturally, anyone who has had problems with Taichi absolutely hate him, so Goto was vicious here. They quickly fought on the outside, Taichi continued to hit Karl Fredericks and even threw him into Goto to get the advantage. He brought the anger right out of Goto, who absolutely destroyed his chest with overhand chops. The two then exchanged a series of strikes and kicks, which Taichi actually came out on top of. We actually saw shades of big match Taichi in this match, as he busted out some huge kicks and often refused to let Goto put him down, but that didn’t stop him from cheating. At one point, Taichi pushed the ref into Goto to stun him, and then nailed a saito suplex for a near fall. Taichi then grabbed the mic stand, but Goto grabbed it and threw it out of the ring. Goto then nailed his mid kick, and went for the GTR, but Taichi grabbed the ref. They struggled a bit, and eventually the ref went down. Taichi then caught a kick to the gut and nailed a low blow, followed by a Gedo clutch for the win. Taichi: 4, Goto: 2.

Grade: C. This match started off pretty week, but got better towards the end. They didn’t seem to have the fire or the chemistry that they had last year, but when Taichi started some shenanigans, I got into it a bit more. Goto’s run in the G1 this year makes sense. He hasn’t been doing all that much, but he beat a big rival already, and now he is just doing the job for a lot of his compatriots. Taichi was the correct winner here. He is having an entertaining run for sure, one that I am happy to watch. But this match was not the best.

Then we had Jon Moxley vs. Shingo Takagi. Exciting stuff, and they were in the same stable in Dragon Gate USA a while back, so that is interesting. The two squared right up the second they were both in the ring together. And they started the brawl before the bell even started. Moxley quickly resorted to his now signature bit to the eyebrow. The two blasted each other with strikes and chops in the corner, before trying for a quick test of strength that Moxley came out on top of. Moxley then overextended a bit, going for a suicide dive, but Takagi caught it and hit a death valley driver on the outside. After Moxley gained the advantage again, he set up a table on the outside, but it wasn’t used right away. Instead, Moxley started to target the leg a little bit to weaken the base. Any time that Shingo started to get some momentum, Moxley went right to the leg and knee. It absolutely crippled Shingo’s offense. He was able to get flashes of offense, such as a nice german suplex, but it would be immediately countered, such as when Moxley responded with one of his own. At one point, Moxley tried for an Irish whip, but Takagi just collapsed as he ran. Moxley tried to follow that up with a regal knee, but Takagi caught him with a noshigami. He followed that up with a pair of pumping bombers, the adrenaline pushing the pain to the back of his mind. However, when he got Moxley up on his shoulders, Takagi couldn’t finish the move. That allowed Moxley to hit a short death rider for a near fall. The two then spilled to the outside, and Moxley started to use weapons to attack the knee. He dropped him knee first on the table, and then wrapped his knee in a chair and smashed it. He was nearly counted out, but when he got into the ring, Moxley blasted him with a regal knee. He tried for another short knee to the ribs, but Takagi grabbed it, and was able to twist him around for a short Made in Japan for a near fall. The two then battled in the middle of the ring, countering several attempts at finishers, before Moxley forced Takagi to the mat with shots to the knee, and then hitting a pair of regal knees to the back of the head, but still a near fall. Moxley then wrapped Takagi up in a cloverleaf for the submission victory. Moxley: 8, Takagi: 4.

Grade: A-. Really good stuff between these two. Moxley is phenomenal with other brawlers, but it also showed an interesting side of him that has technical prowess. He worked the leg in an interesting and exciting way, which seemed like it was only to weaken the offense, but he got a submission win. It was such a great finish, because Moxley never gets submission wins. It came out of left field but it made a lot of sense. Takagi suffered his first submission loss, but it was to the strongest competitor in B block right now. Takagi is having a rough tournament, but moving up a weight class isn’t easy. Match of the night.

Next up was Jay White vs. Jeff Cobb. Neither have had a particularly impressive tournament so far, sitting at 0 and 2 points respectively. Gedo was of course out to corner his protege. White started the match by retreating out of the ring, but unlike opponents before him, Cobb opted to stay inside of the ring. Cobb totally manhandled White, throwing him all over the place, and only pursuing him to the outside when White was on the backfoot. Gedo still tried to interfere, so Cobb threw him into the ring and was about to beat on him when White came soaring in with a knee to the back. White opted to target the neck of Cobb, which is an interesting part to isolate due to his massive neck muscles. Of course, White tried to intimidate Red Shoes when he went for a pin after an illegal move, which made me sad. He is just doing his job. The damage to the neck actually made Cobb slow down quite a bit. His power moves took that much more energy, so he couldn’t go as fast as he usually does. However that did not lessen the impact of his suplexes and throws. He still ragdolled White around like anyone else I’ve seen him handle. White too showcased his strength, giving Cobb both a saito suplex and an uranagi. At one point, Cobb was trying to give White a suplex out of the corner, but White was holding the ropes. So, Cobb popped him up into a cradle position and just chucked him halfway across the ring. He then tried to give Cobb a superplex, but Gedo held White’s leg. White thought he had escaped to the apron, but Cobb then gave him a deadlift superplex. He went for the pin, White kicked out with probably the weakest kickout that I’ve ever seen. He just barely lifted his shoulder off the mat. Cobb and White then battled as Cobb went for tour of the islands, which ended when White was accidentally sent into the ref. Was the ref down, Gedo tried to blast Cobb with the brass knuckles, but ate a slam for his troubles. However, the distraction landed white a low blow, which he converted into a sleeper suplex. White then went for a blade runner, but Cobb countered that into a German Suplex. Cobb went for Tour of the Islands again, only for White to slip out once again and land Bladerunner for the win. White: 2, Cobb: 2.

Grade: C+. Very slow match. It was cool to watch all the power moves from Cobb and seeing how strong White is, but other than that it was just too slow for my liking. I thought the closing stretch was pretty nice, always love to see Gedo taking bumps. White’s losing streak is over, and I’m sure that will transfer right into a winning streak. As for Cobb, I don’t know. I don’t see him passing six points. But this match was fine, nothing worth going out of your way to see.

And in the main event, we had Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii. Intercontinental Champion vs. NEVER Openweight Champion. These two are longtime rivals, and unfortunately, I can’t look up their record against each other because of spoilers. Drawbacks of falling behind in the G1. Of course, Naito took his sweet time removing his ring attire, but Ishii was cool as a cucumber. They started with a striking contest, going until one of them was worn out and then continuing as soon was they could. Naito was naturally fighting dirty during the match, stomping on Ishii as he was grounded and spitting in his face when the mood struck him. Naito targetted the neck in order to nullify some of his power moves. The attacks on the neck, however, did not affect his striking, where Ishii had an advantage. Both men took loads of punishment whenever they started to hit each other. The forearms were stiff, the chops were blistering and they moved very quickly. Naito was taking advantage of his speed and agility edge in the match, using some high flying offense like in his junior heavyweight days. After escaping out of a powerbomb situation, Naito started to disrespect Ishii by slapping him lazily and spitting on him. In response, Ishii trapped him in the corner and destroyed him with chops and strikes. Even when he was about to collapse, Ishii would pick him back up and keep going. He followed it up with a saito suplex for a near fall. He tried for the powerbomb again, but Naito countered with a spike hurricanrana. Naito then tried for a flying forearm, but Ishii countered this time with a straight jacket suplex. Ishii then tried for a superplex, but Naito slipped out and hit a hangman’s neckbreaker off the top, and followed it up with a hurricanrana from the top rope for a near fall. Naito continued to target the neck with his offense, and Ishii was starting to slow down. The injuries were piling up. Naito went for Destino, but Ishii caught him. He tried to go for a lariat, but Naito countered with a high angle german suplex. Ishii popped right back up, but Naito nailed a poison rana. Ishii’s strikes became absolutely desperate, which is normally a bad thing, but with Ishii’s strength, he was still able to floor Naito. He converted those huge hits into a superplex for a near fall. That allowed Ishii to get his second wind, and he just annihilated Naito with various headbutts, strikes and lariats. The two exchanged blows back and forth, when Naito hit a short Destino out of nowhere, but Ishii kicked out! Naito tried for the full hit, but Ishii caught him. The two battled for control, each trying to hit their finisher, ending with Naito hitting a DDT, and Ishii popping right up and hitting the sliding lariat for a near fall. Naito then nailed a brainbuster of his own, but still Ishii kicked out. Neither man was willing to lose here. Naito then hit Destino one final time for the win. Naito: 4, Ishii: 4.

Grade: A-. Another great match out of these two. Ishii was actually fighting from behind a lot in this match, and I think the only reason why he was actually able to stand up to Naito in this match was his raw strength and endurance. He was at a disadvantage from the start, because Naito picked the best body part that he could have to work over. It nullified a lot of his offense, and given how much he uses various suplexes, Ishii injured himself over time as well. Naito played this one smart. In the end, Destino did it. He broke the neck down and got the win. Good stuff from Naito, glad to see that he is coming into his own now. Ishii is still the MVP of the G1 in my opinion, delivering his fourth great match in as many matches. Definitely the best in the block. Great stuff from both guys, two of the best in the entire tournament.

Overall Grade: B-

Pros: Moxley vs. Takagi; Naito vs. Ishii

Cons: Robinson vs. Yano; Cobb vs. White

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Q: Why the Mad Max Fandom?

A: I was actually quite fixated on Fury Road after watching it on DVD. I didn’t expect to particularly like it - I’d never seen the previous Mad Max movies (I finally have!) - but I was transfixed. And I didn’t particularly ship Furiosa and Max until the haemothorax/transfusion scene (although then I very much did). There were just so many layers of detail and backstory there waiting to be explored, because so little was actually said or explained. It’s like a neutron star of fic-fodder. And I didn’t discover ao3 til summer 2016 so I spent a full year wandering around like a lost soul. So, yeah. Quite a huge deal for me really.

Q: What do you think are some defining aspects of your work? Do you have a style? Recurrent themes?

A: Music. Minor characters looking on and commenting on the protagonists (big fan of Thomas Hardy’s more comedic efforts, where this happens a lot). Reasonably happy endings.

Q: Which of your works was the most fun to create? The most difficult? Which is your most popular? Most successful? Your favourite overall?

A: Maybe the small town modern AU (Ordinary People), because it was a nice change from the Wasteland setting. I’m not very Wasteland-minded at all. But the Bladerunner AU (Do Androids Dream etc) and the new Firefly AU are lots of fun because the two sets of movie worlds mesh together way better than I’d expected.

The most difficult? - My Wasteland headcanon stuff. It’s too fluffy and not remotely violent which doesn’t really ring true. I’m very aware that my Furiosa is hardly ever violent, or my Max particularly mad. But that’s the great thing about fanfiction - the infinite versions of characters and scenarios. Surprisingly the Blues Brothers AU is quite tricky. I can’t quite make Jake Blues and Furiosa the same person. But it’s an excuse to listen to great tunes. And Jessie will make a comeback in that one though (she’s not dead, I should make that clear).

On the old kudos-to-hits ratio, the Firefly AU is taking off surprisingly well, but it’s quite smut-focused so that might well account for it ;) early days yet. Bladerunner AU is doing well for a multi-chapter. Up Around The Bend (an oldie, the escape from the Citadel) is hanging in there.

Most successful? I’m happy enough with all of them, except maybe I Kissed A Girl. Please don’t read that. Favourite overall - It’s a toss-up between Ordinary People (a chance to explore my headcanon in a modern small town setting) and the Bladerunner AU (it makes me weep).

Q: How do you like your wasteland? Gritty? Hopeful? Campy? Soft? Why?

A: Hopeful and silly and everyone has access to a record player somehow. This is why I stick to writing AUs these days. But I’ll happily read all of the above!!! And entirely intend to!

Q: Walk us through your creative process from idea to finished product. What's your prefered environment for creating? How do you get through rough patches?

A: Watch a film, browse tumblr, listen to music, get an idea. Have a good think about it, think about it some more, find a starting point, write it down, go from there. Maybe stick a draft on tumblr if I’m not sure if it’s going to fly. Write it anyway.

For OCs, figure out what someone looks like. That’s weirdly essential for me. Zal (Furiosa’s Dad) is Ed Harris, Young Val (Furiosa and Max’s grownup daughter) is Alicia Vikander and Toots (rescued-kid-turned-Wasteland-son-in-law) is Didier Drogba (bit of a blast from the past but hey). I was getting nowhere with Blues Mothers Jessie until I recast her as Sofia Boutella (because if Max is getting a generational update, she needs one too). And Firefly AU’s Mister Jobassa is Jakob Oftebro. All very pretty people, but what are you gonna do? But they’re only these people in MY head - they can be whoever the reader wants them to be. Oh, and Pin from Ordinary People was 100% an actual real tour guide I met on holiday once.

Preferred environment? Usually while half asleep in bed, or walking, or In the gym, or watching tv - world building seems to be something that happens away from the keyboard. Writing itself is exclusively on my phone so can and does happen anywhere at all. Rough patches are usually caused by guilt that I’m not spending enough time on the day job :P

Q: What (if any) music do you listen to for help getting those creative juices flowing?

A: I listen to music all the time anyway, mainly upbeat pre-90s tunes. Disco, funk, ska, motown, anything like that. And it always find its way into the writing. Sometimes artificially (where I’m on a song-lyrics-as-title theme - it took ages for some of the Wasteland fics) but most times it can help shape the story in a BIG way. I can’t listen to certain songs now without reliving a chapter or a whole fic - Dionne Warwick’s Do You Know The Way To San José is Bladerunner!Furiosa’s Green Place song, and Ash’s Angel Interceptor is StarTrek!Max’s flying music - it’s noisy enough but also speaks to me about a longing to not be alone in the universe. Concrete and Clay is smalltown!Max’s bittersweet lament for Jessie and Twistin’ The Night Away is the final party scene in Cheedo’s update of The Rivals. Some fics wouldn’t have been written at all if it wasn’t for a particular song. The Black Keys’ Heavy Soul was my original Wasteland Furiosa/Max ship theme back in 2015, before I’d even heard of ao3 - that’s the closest I’ve come to a song fic. Caleb was only Caleb because of a line in Symarip’s Skinhead Moonstomp, and I was so desperate to write a fic with Leo Sayer’s You Make Me Feel Like Dancing In it that it was the final excuse for a whole modern mirrorverse to my Wasteland headcanon series. Bet you’re sorry you asked now. But I’ll have to go and put together a Kirkyverse OST list.

Q: What is your biggest challenge as a creator?

A: To put the damn thing down and walk away. To not assume it’s awful if I don’t get a kudos in the first thirty hits. Thumb cramp from phone-typing.

Q: How have you grown as a creator through your participation in the Mad Max Fandom? How has your work changed? Have you learned anything about yourself?

A: I didn’t write at all before the Mad Max fandom. Apart from a ghost story when I was about seven (it did win a prize tbh) and a truly god awful Stephen King rip-off when I was fourteen (which makes me nauseous from embarrassment when I think of it). So a fair bit, it’d probably be fair to say. It would be impossible not to, you know, from zero :) My work has changed from spinoffs of inspirational fics (thanks Squid!) to ‘well, I suppose I’ve got a head canon, let’s see if I can make this work’ to ‘goddammit I’ll finish this if it kills me’. Then I missed my exit on the Roundabout of Fic Endings and had to go round again in a modern AU mirror verse. Now it’s all movie mashups, which is lots of fun and probably never-ending. During which time I have learned that crossovers are my favourite to write. And that writing fanfic is probably not a temporary fad :)

Q: Which character do you relate to the most, and how does that affect your approach to that character? Is someone else your favourite to portray? How has your understanding of these characters grown through portraying them?

A: I don’t really have a favourite tbh. They’re all their own people and do their own thing. Writing them is very dependent on their environment, and it’s often surprising how they behave and where they end up. It feels a bit like they’re on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Q: Do you ever self-insert, even accidentally?

A: Hah yes. The first one was Zephyr the annoying visitor in Witches and Ogres. Young Val’s social awkwardness in As was very much on loan from me.

Q: Do you have any favourite relationships to portray? What interests you about them?Furiosa and Max are pretty much always there - sometimes it’s probably platonic, and sometimes there’s a third person involved (nothing posted yet but but but). It depends on the fic.

Q: Do you prefer to create in one defined chronology or do your works stand alone? Why or why not?

A: One big long chronology for the headcanon series (childhood to old age), then a whole bunch of little universes for everything else.

Q: To break or not to break canon? Why?

A: Not to break, as much as I can. But it depends.

Q: Share some headcanons.

A: Furiosa was never actually a wife - she was captured but dodged the whole Vault experience. Max is the original Max, of Jessie and Sprog fame. Toecutter was Joe’s younger self - he scooted around on motorbikes and raised hell before deciding to settle down and take the Citadel. AU Toast and Dag are twins (from a shady mob family). Furiosa’s Dad is a friendly Wasteland bandit.

Q: If you work with OCs walk us through your process for creating them. Who are some of your favourites?

A: They’re supplementary characters who make the plots fit together, and sources of conflict or humour (usually both). I think I like Ordinary People’s Alexa and Mallory best. Although the Irish War Boy crew in Beyond the Pale were fun to write. Ace’s trio of love interests (Brick, Big Dave and Caleb/Pin) are a consistent theme. Sometimes I steal characters from other sources (stand up Christopher Brookmyre) when it’s convenient.

Q: What sparks your many wonderful AUs?

A: Movies, tv, gifs, tumblr prompts and general chitchat (thankyou btw!!!)

Q: A lot of your fics are light-hearted and hopeful, which is great to see for the apocalyptic Mad Max world. Your thoughts on that? What is it about the characters that inspires you to reframe them?

A: I just really like comedy and am committed to winkling it into every fictional scenario whether it’s appropriate or not. Glad people don’t hate it!

Q: Who are some works by other creators inside and outside of the fandom that have influenced your work?

A: Well, it was Squid’s ( @sacrificethemtothesquid )Length and Breadth of Fury Road that got me out of the starting blocks! Christopher Brookmyre’s The Sacred Art of Stealing was a big influence on my headcanon series, as was a particular Coronation Street storyline from some years back :)

Q: Tell us about a current WIP or planned project.

A: Blues Brothers AU series (Sweet Home Chicago) -Wasteland Star Trek First Contact AU (Angel Interceptor) -Firefly AU (Our Mister Jobassa) -His Dark Materials AU (unnamed as yet, just brewing in my head, hope it just stays there for the meantime) -Will combine all the headcanon works into one long fic sometime. That’s everything from Witches and Ogres through to Ordinary People. Probably be called ‘All the Things that I’ve Done’ (basically the two lives of Furiosa: Wasteland and mirrorverse).

Thank you @kirkypet

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