#the simple fact that it IS an adaptation doesn’t mean it will be bad

[cowherderess]

Broadway musicals and their source material

Oklahoma! – Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931 play by Lynn Riggs

Carousel – Liliom, 1909 play by Ferenc Molnár

South Pacific – Tales of the South Pacific, 1947 book by James Michener

Guys and Dolls – two short stories by Damon Runyon

The King and I – Anna and the King of Siam, 1944 novel by Margaret Landon

The Pajama Game – 7½ Cents, 1953 novel by Richard Bissell

My Fair Lady – Pygmalion, 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw

The Sound of Music – The Story of the Trapp Family, 1949 memoir of the real-life Maria von Trapp

Camelot – The Once and Future King, 1958 novel by T.H. White; Arthurian legend

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – 1952 book of the same name by Shepherd Mead

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – plays by Ancient Roman writer Plautus

Gypsy – Gypsy: A Memoir, by Gypsy Rose Lee

Oliver! – Oliver Twist, 19th-century novel by Charles Dickens

Hello, Dolly! – The Merchant of Yonkers, 1938 play by Thornton Wilder

She Loves Me – Parfumerie, 1937 play by Miklós László

Fiddler on the Roof – Tevye and His Daughters, 1890s short stories by Sholem Aleichem

Man of La Mancha – Don Quixote, 17th-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes

Mame – Auntie Mame, 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis

Cabaret – I Am a Camera, 1951 play by John Van Druten; Goodbye to Berlin, 1939 book by Christopher Isherwood

Two Gentlemen of Verona – Shakespeare play of the same name

A Little Night Music – “Smiles of a Summer Night,” 1955 film by Ingmar Bergman

The Wiz – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum

Chicago – 1926 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins

Annie – “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip

Sweeney Todd – 1973 play of the same name by Christopher Bond; Victorian-era penny dreadfuls

42nd Street – 1932 novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes

Nine – “8½” a film by Federico Fellini

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – the Biblical story of Joseph

Cats – Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 1939 poetry collection by T.S. Eliot

La Cage aux Folles – 1973 play of the same name by Jean Poiret

The Mystery of Edwin Drood – novel of the same name by Charles Dickens

Les Misérables – 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo

The Phantom of the Opera – 1910 novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux

Into the Woods – Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tale characters

The Secret Garden – 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on This Island – My Love, My Love: Or, The Peasant Girl, 1985 novel by Rosa Guy

Kiss of the Spider Woman – 1976 novel of the same name by Manuel Puig

Passion – Fosca, 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti; 1981 film “Passione d’Amore”

Beauty and the Beast – French fairy tale recorded by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Sunset Boulevard – 1950 film of the same name

Rent – La Bohème, opera by Giacomo Puccini

#posting for freetobegrace #and anyone else in the Broadway fandom who’s tired of arguing about ‘original musicals’ #there have been good adaptations and bad adaptations #the simple fact that it IS an adaptation doesn’t mean it will be bad

[ladyloveandjustice]

I was thinking about the death note musical and how it just had such a simple and smart adaptation ending...like it’s pretty well agreed that the second half of Death Note is weaker, so the fact they have Ryuk just kill Light because he knows it will be boring now that L’s gone is pretty funny from a meta perspective, but also fits in pretty well with Ryuk’s general ‘only after something entertaining’ idea.. But I think it was especially clever the fact they set it up so it seemed like it was Light killing Rem that crossed the line for Ryuk.The play has them hanging out in the Shinigami world and discussing how dumb humans are and Ryuk shows actual concern when Rem sacrifices herself and tries to talk her out of it. It seems like he thought of her as a friend, and mildly cared about her, so this pissed him off, and fact Light would kill a death god also sends off alarm bells, so this kid isn’t worth it anymore. Light was very much hoist by his own petard still, thinking he could just kill off a god and not get any consequences. His lack of compassion mean he never considered Ryuk might have feelings about it.

It doesn’t change anything fundamental about Ryuk or what he represents in the manga- he’s still uncaring towards humans, still after a good time, still a neutral temptation, he just has depth.

But mostly I like it as a change because it means someone actually gives a shit about Rem, whereas in the manga she dies alone and unmourned, and in the long run only bought Misa a couple extra years. Here, someone cares, and her death matters beyond being a device for Light to win. Here, she actually succeeds in protecting Misa permanently (since in the musical, Light dies before Misa regains her memories, so she’s fine, actually.) The musical is more explicit about Rem’s feelings for Misa being romantic (and treats them with a LOT more weight that the original did), so Light actually getting direct comeuppance for laughing at her feelings for Misa and exploiting them leaves less of a bad taste too.

And the original mangaka would have never made that choice though because it would meant empathizing with and caring about a female character and her feelings for another woman. So you know. Adaptations can be good.

#death note #why did I starting thinking about this musical again I don't know

[mayfay]

Danny’s Medical Complications

Or: I had an idea and it won’t leave (and unfortunately I can’t do dialogue to save my life)

It started simple enough, a quick visit to Frostbite for a general checkup. And then it kept going. New machines, techniques, people, and an increasingly worried yeti was starting to freak Danny out a bit. Eventually it all went away and Frostbite set him down for A Talk.

See, Halfas are hella rare for a reason. The conditions needed to form them are really rare yes, but they aren’t the Main problem. No the main issue is the Disparity. Ghosts are beings of emotions, sufficient stress, emotional/mental harm, lack of ecto, and more can all lead to death. And Halfas crank that up to 11. They have a human side to take care of that’s constantly changing and growing, a higher ecto requirement to fuel their higher base strength, and a myriad of other minor complications that haven’t been properly studied cause Halfas are rarely found and usually don’t form ghosts on death

Say what

What do you mean “don’t form a ghost” they’re already half way there!

And there lies the problem, they’re halfway there. Ghosts are pretty static. they might change yes, but it’s usually due to major events or over the course of eons. And how do they decide on what they’re gonna be? By dying of course! Once the body dies its ghost is formed based on the current life situation and they move on. Simple, quick, easy. No complications here no siree!

Enter Halfas

They already died, and while infant ghosts and experience some major changes as they settle it’s nothing to the degree humans do. And as time passes the static ghost half and changing human half can drift, wobbling on that line between life and death. And once it gets to extreme? They fall. If the ghost half starves or dies the human half experiences Major health complications, leading to death shortly after. If the human side dies they try to form a ghost using all the ambient ecto the ghost side has been feeding on, leading to the ghosts death in most cases but if not they’re practically two different beings and fusing them will kill both anyways.

Good news though! With all the combat and rediculously high ecto levels Danny was exposed to to form his other half, his ghost side has stayed pretty adaptable! The other ghosts didn’t realize they were fighting a literal infant thanks to the high ecto levels he had (and the knowledgeable ones that Did had other reasonings the meant a little smack down they totally wouldn’t lose was an acceptable trade off for them). Horrifying, he will spend the next century finding all sorts of animal pelts, boxes, music tracks, etc landing on him in the middle of the night. But it has a silver lining! Thanks to not being allowed to settle Danny can still shape his ghost form to a degree. And Clockwork, brilliant old man that he is, has an Idea on how to fix this.

Great! Lay it on him Clockwork! What’s he gotta do? Get de-aged and die? Ha Ha! You sure know how to make a good joke old man-child, now what’s the real way?

Oh

Oh no

Danny Can form a ghost on death, but it’ll require dying while as mentally and physically similar to how he was when the portal closed. Problem there, he’s changed. He’s changed a Good Bit. Luckily Clockwork can handle the physical aspect but Desiree needs some extra time for her end. See, she Can change brain chemistry and whatnot, but it takes time to become permanent. A quick fix like her usual work is fragile (lies, it’s still stupidly powerful but forming a ghost relies on the persons deepest core, and that takes time to settle in to Desiree’s magic). So they just have to de-age Danny to an appropriate age where once he hits around the age he was when the portal closed Desiree’s magic will have settled, molding his personality/core to as close as they can be.

And then he has to die.

Doesn’t have to be as extreme as the portal incident was (in fact new factors like major doses of ecto would be a Very bad idea, his malleable ghost side is already pushing the limits with the minor variation he’ll already have) but it Does need to be in an area with high levels of ambient ecto, preferably his new hometown to match his current life’s lack of geographic movement.

He’ll also need to have his ghost half locked away to a degree. He’ll still need to be liminal of course, that long term exposure to ecto is needed to fuel a ghosts transformation, but proper ghost powers are getting put away unless Clockwork thinks they’re needed (and if it Does get to that point he’s getting pulled out for a second try anyways).

So where to put him? Well Gotham of course!

Clockwork…. Why are you like this (it’s all for the good of the timeline. And Lady Gotham owes him a favor he prepared just for this)

From there if he ends up in the Bats care (Nasty Burger explosion, Ghost Jazz, or simply not having anyone capable of properly raising him knowing he’ll die at 14) it doesn’t take long for one John Constantine to notice the Heavy Infinite Realms influence on the small child and drag the big bat away for his own Talk (double angst if he’s able to recognize the specific brand of Time Magic indicating a death prophecy). If he ends up under Jazz’s care then it might take a bit longer, but she’ll likely end up tied up in Bat business and from there it wouldn’t take long for a Very stressed Jazz to accidentally reveal something (or a child Danny not realizing “I know when I’m going to Die in excruciating detail!” is Not something you share with strangers, especially not ones as paranoid as the Bats).

Also for loose threads I imagine Ellie is unstable because her ecto is cloned off of Danny, while her human half is its own person. That large disparity usually leads to death (as seen in the other clones) but she’s able to force it off with sheer ecto strength, using the ecto shots as fuel to Force her body to stay together until they reach an inevitable conclusion or potentially meld together like Dan does).

As for Dan he’s not Properly a Halfa. I never watched the show so I don’t have all the details but I understand he’s some kinda mix of future Danny and Vlad gone evil and destroying the world. This mix Might be able to last longer than a regular Halfa would due to the insane amounts of ecto he has in his system. And as time passes the mixed ghost halves Could be unstable enough to sort of meld with his human parts, creating something of a Highly unstable ghost-human hybrid (seperate from Halfas since this is a blending of the two, not a distinct line between two halves).

That wouldn’t work with Danny cause it requires a second ghost mixing with him And the two somehow not destabilizing during the years it takes for the blend to settle. And the Ellie route is out since that requires So Much fine control and vigilance over a Very long period of time to slowly manually shape the ghost half to better fit the human half, rather than the other way around like Danny’s doing.

#dpxdc #first time doing a proper dpxdc and I tackled a topic I don’t know much about #so not sure on the quality but I Had to get it down

[komoboko]

okie hihi its me again, I'll resending the request plantonic with teen-reader and (fatherfigure)kokupuffs

It will be simple same sitution with tanjiro and nezuko, but differeny dymanic, kokupuffs trained reader with his moon breathing(as a spy in the corps), and he continues teaching them until somewhere along the year, he grow attach to them so he discards the die of the spy in the corps and continues to train and raise reader, and reader grow wonderfully, time skip- reader hearing about what happened to tanjiro in hashira meeting, and just have a blow oit panic attack, what if someone found out their teacher(father) is a demon? a upper rank one? and just kokushibo comforting them quietly, pat pat the head of smt.

just fatherly love.

𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭

Platonic kokushibo tsugikuni x teen!reader

I wrote this three different times to get to the same ending the writing block is killing me

Your method of training was much more unconditional compared to any other slayer to say the least.

You still learned all the basic, excelled well in them to. Techniques came much easier to you and you had a great mentor, it was only the little things that made it different. Maybe the small part that you started to adapt moon breathing into your skills, a breathing style not picked up or used by slayers for a long time. That’s fine, maybe you were just ahead of your game.

Maybe it was the fact that you mentor just happened to be a demon, an upper moon. Which demons are obviously prohibited in the corps, but upperanks specifically? If they even find out about it they’ll be hunt down and hopefully executed immediately. That’s not to good is it..

Kokushibo was an interesting man. His way of going about things is different, this thought process is different, his entire body structure is different. Everything about him was strange. Some ways it still surprises you that he even decided to help you in the first place.

He never planned keeping you around for this long in the first place. It was only so he could blend in with the rest of the slayers nearby, making him less suspicious in case anything happened. He trained you for a while, he was more surprised by how quickly you grown. He didn’t expect himself to grow attached to you. He tried to fight it off for a while he really did but it just wouldn’t work.

So reluctantly he persisted, trained you much longer than a spy mission would require. As much as he denies it he can’t say he doesn’t look out for you. He’ll tell you it’s nothing and you’ll just need to repay him for doing this but you know he doesn’t want anything from you in return. He’s surprised at how far you’ve grown in moon breathing. He’s proud of your growth and he doesn’t regret taking you in while he could.

You’ve been practicing for awhile with kokushibo and with others in the corps. You wouldn’t ever tell them how you learned it, you’d just tell them it came natural to you. That’s all the information they need to know, especially after what you seen today.

You didn’t mean to eavesdrop you just happen to be in the area at the same moment and the same time. The new boy you seen at the corps was outed for smuggling a demon, having been protecting his little sister in the giant box he carried around. You could sympathize for him as you had your own situation with handling a demon. You couldn’t blame him for his actions, but you’d never say this out loud. You wouldn’t dare.

It surprised you how harsh the boy was treated, even more so at how his little sister was treated. It brought you even more fear at realize the repercussions of anybody finding out how you’ve even trained. Seeing how bad this boy was treated despise being here for such little time, it would be devastating if they figured out how long this “scandal” has been going on.

Panic soon began to consume you as your breathing picked up and your eyes widen more as you darted off. Running into the woods in no particular direction as your breathing soon became much more intense as fear only seemed to control your actions even more. Your body leans up against a tree as you slowly shuffle down. Your knees pressed to your chest as you stare at the leaves on the grassy floor.

You were unaware of kokushibo presence who awkwardly stood behind the tree. He was aware of the demon child and its slayer brother as muzan had informed him. Your mumbling only confirmed his suspicions on what he believed happened. He walks to stand beside you unsure if the first way to approach this, he never needed to really comfort you in this manor. The only time he did so was to motivate you to train more, nothing like this.

His hands finds it way to the top of your head as he stiffly attempts to pat your head to comfort you. You only stare up at him as your distress is still present, “what if they find out? Especially if they realize hiw long this has been going on?!” You mumble as the fear in your voice is evident. Kokushibo only shakes his head at you to stop yourself from continuing on.

“Nonsense child, mortals like you are easy to deceive. If they ever do I..” he stops himself he can’t tell you he would kill them, it would only cause you to fall deeper into despair than you already are. “I will personally come to defend your honor.” He finishes his sentence before looking down at you again, hoping to bring you so firm of closure.

You couldn’t help but still fear some fear, no matter how calming the demon’s words were meant to be. “I know I know, but if they even find out for a second I’d be cursed. Banished from the corps, I’d be persecuted by every slayer around. It would be an unforgivable action possibly.” You ramble out as kokushibo only kneels down to get closer to your eye level. Before you can continue he only stops you before you can say more.”

“Being a child like yourself should not be some sort a sin.” He states staring back at you with all six of his eyes. “If they even have any theory of you working under me I shall take the weight and th blame. A child like yourself shouldn’t and won’t feel any remorse nor any pain. I will make sure of this myself.” His words are meaningful in deep despite the strange way he puts it.

Your eyes only drift back to the ground as silence falls between the two of you. Your knees shift before your head turns to look at kokushibo. Who can tell hopes you understand what he was trying to tell you. He shifts as he stares out into the distance becoming stiff when he feels a pair of arms around him. He blinks when you hug him not very sure on how to react quickly.

He sits still for a moment before slowly just letting you hug him. One of his arms wrap around you in hopes to comfort you a little bit more. He feels you calming down more and it eases him to know your original state of panic washes away. Even to this day despite how long he’s been strolling the earth he does not get why he feels any attachment towards you in the first place. Never the less he embraces it.

You on the other hand are grateful for his presence just being here with you in the first place. You know he’s gonna go on with his “mortals are insignificant” and his “humans are so stubborn and so weak at the same time” rambles later on. You can appreciate him being here to give you his piece of mind now and to really tell you he’s here for you even if he can’t express it right.

Your mentor still is pretty weird, immoral to others. You can’t say you don’t appreciate him being him whether others will like it or not.

#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #kny #demon slayer x reader #kny x reader #x reader #fluff #headcanon #kny fluff #@.komoboko writes #kokushibo tsugikuni #kokushibo #kny kokushibo #kokushibo x reader #kokushibo tsugikuni x reader #uppermoons #uppermoon one #uppermoonkoku #platonic #platonic fix #WRITING BLOCK GRAAAAGGHHHHHH

[onlyhereforthestories]

Maybe an Alexia ficlet around distance and how they deal with upset or miscommunication. Love your writing

First one here you go! This one was a little hard to write but I hope it shows that sometimes a bit of space and patience helps no matter how hard that is sometimes.

Loving someone is hard, like really hard. But it is also one of the best feelings in the world. They are the person that you can’t wait to talk to when you wake up and the last thought on your mind before you fall asleep. They cheer you up when you are down and make the small battles worth every second. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still so, so hard some days.

Today was one of those days. You and Alexia were currently on opposite sides of the world and had been for the last 10 months, this was due to the fact that Valto had decided that you needed to play amongst the rest of your national teammates during the season before the world cup. When you woke up this morning you knew something was wrong, Alexia would have normally sent you a message to wake up to but there wasn’t one and it was already past midday for her.

She was still the first person you wanted to text once awake so you did it anyway, she was always one to say to text however many times you wanted and she’d always reply when she could. After sending the text you hoped into the shower and tried not to let your mind spin with possibilities, which you will say was pretty unsuccessful. By the time your shower was done you were pretty sure you had gone over the last week of conversations with the woman you loved with everything you had in you and you had decided at least five things you probably said wrong.

Checking your phone again to see still no message did nothing for your aching heart, in fact it just made you sad. You wished nothing more than to be able to go see her and make whatever it was you had done wrong right but that wasn’t possible, she was miles and miles away. Out of your reach.

Instead you text, that was all you could do was text. You sent a message to ask if you had done something wrong and what it was if so, so you could put it right but all you got was a simple have a good day message. As sure sign that she didn’t want to talk to you, which broke your already breaking heart. Whatever you had done was bad enough that she didn’t even want to interact with you and now all you could think about was the possibility of her ending it.

Love is a funny thing and when you get to experience it, it changes you. You learn to adapt your own self a little bit in order to account for this other person in your life, a whole different personality that won’t always run smoothly with yours and that is what you were trying to do here.

Alexia sometimes found it hard to process things to do with feelings and you and you knew that when she wanted to be left alone you had to try your best to give her that space even though it hurt you a little. Space that sometimes made your head spin and spiral with all the bad endings that you were confident weren’t going to happen, but that didn’t stop your head from thinking them.

The morning of silence turned into an afternoon and then you knew she would have gone to bed so you were in for a silent night. You processed what you could and tried to sleep as best you could with the worry.

The next morning you woke up to a text asking for a little more time but to tell you she was okay and just needed some space. It was always something she promised to do if these days happened because she knew youd be worrying if not so you appreciated her a lot for that. You left her alone for the day no matter how many times she came into your mind, no matter how many things happened that you wanted to tell her, she deserved the space she wished for from you.

You went to bed that night with a sad calm that you always got to on the second night, the realty of the situation always hit and you found it hard to not shut off from the world. Shutting off was part of you coping mechanism when it came to the love of your life freezing you out.

All that went away the next morning when you woke up to see her name on your phone. Good morning pretty girl, I had dinner last night and all I could think about was trying some of your cooking. I hope you slept well.

Rough times happen and you knew that you would both have a conversation about what made her need some space, what you need to work on and how you are going to do that but at the end of the day as long as she came back to you that’s all that matters.

#alexia putellas x reader #ficlet #woso x reader

[zodiactalks]

FUNNIEST Zodiac Signs Ranked

Many people agree that you can’t manufacture a great sense of humor. You either are born with it, or you don’t have it.

This talent belongs to spontaneous, quick-witted people, who are not afraid to laugh at themselves! These characters are very observant and pay attention to their surroundings, have a curious nature, and are always ready to learn new things.

Humor is usually found in things that are out of place. The better someone assumes unique perspectives or sees things from a completely different angle, the better this person will be at making funny remarks about their daily lives.

A natural sense of humor is also related to outgoing, talkative people and enjoy having an audience to entertain.

Do you consider yourself a funny person? Read on and find out if your sign is one of the funniest in the zodiac!

#1. Gemini

This sociable sign has all the ingredients that make a great comedian: they are outgoing, very clever, spontaneous, and good with words. Geminis are the clown of their groups, always finding how to make people laugh, regardless of the circumstances.

These individuals have a natural skill for witty and simple jokes. They are also very friendly and can get along with almost everyone, making this adaptable character one of their key assets to their intuitive sense of humor.

Gemini will make a great comedian since they are charming and know how to keep an audience engaged for hours to come.

#2. Sagittarius

Sagittarians are also hilarious signs. Instead of dwelling on their problems or unfortunate circumstances, they prefer to laugh at themselves and make a joke about it!

Sagittarians are spontaneous, light-hearted, and adventurous, which means they are ready to turn things upside down and laugh at the outcomes, a typical personality trait of a funny person. There is no tragic situation that Sagittarius cannot reverse with their quirky sense of humor and infectious positivity. For this reason, it’s very wise to keep one of these optimistic fellows around in case you are having a bad day.

#3. Aquarius

Aquarius’ brilliant mind is worthy of admiration. Their cutting-edge ideas make them one of the best comedians of the whole zodiac. This sign doesn’t follow the mainstream and therefore laughs at outdated laws and restrictions with their jokes.

These folks have a detached nature that’s often related to people with a keen sense of humor. Those who are too serious or too identified with the action can’t see the funny side of life.

But Aquarians are able to see the funny patterns in their circumstances, even in unfortunate times. Their sense of humor is social-oriented and aims to raise awareness of society’s injustices and humanitarian concerns.

#4. Leo

Leo is a born entertainment. These individuals know how to keep other’s people attention on them, thanks to their charismatic and bright personalities. As they enjoy having the spotlight, they’ve learned how to unleash their unique sense of humor from a young age.

Their warm characters make their jokes popular, and they succeed at making everyone they know laugh for hours. They have good comedic timing, which means they don’t just have funny words. Leo has a sense of rhythm and delivery that makes them naturally funny.

#5. Scorpio

Scorpio is not very outgoing. In fact, they usually hide their inner self from the rest of the people. However, given the right circumstances, they can come up with hilarious jokes! Although, they are not for everyone's taste.

Nothing is funny by itself. Things are funny for some specific people in specific situations. Scorpio makes other laughs when the audience is in tune with its dark nature. They have a great talent for reading the atmosphere well and be in rapport with the people around them.

This sign is the king of dark humor and the kind of people that understand it has a lot of fun with their wicked jokes. So, if this is your cup of tea, find a Scorpio comedian and enjoy a wonderful time.

#6. Libra

Libra doesn’t really like to take center stage and usually doesn’t have the initiative to entertain others. However, these individuals are charming and are always looking to please their companions, so if the situation calls for it, they will crack a few jokes to break the ice. Libra’s sense of humor is tasteful and classic. They will never say anything inappropriate or offend others with their words. Libra will probably tell all those classic jokes they recall from their childhood and everyone else will just laugh to avoid making this adorable sign feel awkward. After all, they do everything they can to make their companions feel at ease.

#7. Aries

Sometimes Aries has a great sense of humor, but they just don’t realize it! When they get upset about something, their reactions are over the top, and they start spouting all sorts of outrageous things without regard for whoever is listening.

For the rest of the people, this is entirely amusing! Although Aries' intention was not what they expected, they end up laughing at themselves as well.

#8. Taurus

Taurus is a quiet and calm sign, and don’t usually like to tell jokes or make funny remarks. They prefer to go to the movies and see a comedy film instead of making other people laugh.

This sign is too down-to-earth and has a simple way of approaching their circumstances, which takes away their spontaneity and flexibility to find humor in life.

They still appreciate people with a great sense of humor and look for their company when they have spare time and want fun.

#9. Pisces

Pisces is a sensitive and dreamy water sign that tends to observe life rather than play an active role. They lack enough wit and spontaneity to make funny jokes or tell their experiences with humor. Besides, they tend to be quiet and withdrawn and don’t like when all eyes are on them. This sign is sensitive and the last thing they want to do is make other people feel bad, thanks to a misplaced joke. Pisces takes seriously the feelings of each individual and could not laugh at the underlying truths of each person's experience. They have numerous other great qualities, but humor, in particular, is not their strength.

#10. Capricorn

Capricorn is too focused on working and climbing the career ladder to be funny. This sign is known for their pessimistic approach to life and their lack of humor. Again, someone who is too rigid and down-to-earth like Capricorn is unable to look at things from a different perspective, which is pretty much what it takes to be funny and entertain other people! They don't even like comedies and don't get it when others make jokes! They are a little bit too serious for this world.

#11. Cancer

Cancer is a sensitive sign that wears a giant shell to protect itself from the outside world. That's why they tend to appear rude and don't make jokes to not interact with others.

They show a little more sense of humor after knowing someone for a long time, and they feel confident enough. However, their repertoire of jokes is quite limited, and they only show it on special occasions and when not many people are watching them.

#12. Virgo

Virgo is another pessimistic sign, prone to see the glass as half-empty and to expect the worst from their circumstances.

They also don't have much of a sense of humor. In fact, they tend to criticize people who make jokes all the time, as they consider them childish.

For Virgo, there are too many problems in the world to be laughing at those distractions.

#Zodiac #Zodiac Signs #ZodiacFacts #astrology #astrology signs #Aquarius #Aries #Cancer #Capricorn #leo #libra #Sagittarius #Pisces #taurus #scorpio #Gemini #virgo

[i-do-a-little-drawing]

I may have a red dwarf theory/head canon about Rimmer, and why he never seems to adapt, learn or change (especially in earlier seasons)

(I have not yet watched the last 2 seasons, if there is something in canon that directly refutes anything I say here please let me know!!)

Rimmer is a hologram, a ‘copy’ of the person he used to be whilst living. He has the memories, personality, everything the original had, but it is still a fact that the original is dead and the hologram is a copy. These holograms were created to boost crew morale on the ship, but cannot go away from the ship (in soft light form, which is what he was originally programmed to be) without being in that huge cage, seen in ‘thanks for the memory’.

To me, this says that holograms are meant to be temporary ways of staving off a crew’s grief until the ship is docked, so that everyone keeps working, and once they go home the fact that they really can’t see this person again begins to hit. They are supposed to be copies that temporarily fill the void that death leaves until it would no longer inconvenience Jupiter mining co.

A hologram would need to be backed up somehow, to have its data saved from new memories it makes post mortem, because if something goes wrong and the hologram thinks it only just died it does nothing to stave off a crew’s grief, since it is even more obvious that the person is really dead.

But large changes in a hologram’s behaviours would also potentially ruin the effect. Even if the change is organic, ie. the hologram learns not to do something they always do or picks up a new habit, the mourning party would see the change as inorganic, believe that the hologram is not truly the person who died, and the holograms purpose would be lost.

So, the most reasonable thing to do would be to update the memories, but prevent any major changes to a hologram’s personality that may be obtained post-mortem. Artificially staying the same is far less noticeable than any sort of change, and holograms are meant to be a temporary solution. It’s not like a hologram will be sustained by the ship for decades, there’s no reason to allow for growth!

Enter the extraordinary circumstance of Rimmer’s situation.

In many episodes, he seems to start to learn to be less of an asshole, only for the next episode to forget all of this potential growth and continue acting the same way. Red dwarf is not truly episodic, the characters remember and reference things that happened in the past constantly, and adapt to them for better or worse. One instance of a character’s personality changing (also the only one I can think of rn) is Kryten, who goes from a simple service droid to becoming an individual, developing a clingy and sneaky demeanour appearing in season 7 which you wouldn’t imagine from season 2 Kryten.

Kryten is not reliant on the ship or Holly, and he does almost all of his own maintenance, but Rimmer (especially soft light Rimmer) is reliant on the ship for everything. This means he will be backed up multiple times, and each time, his personality will revert to ‘normal’.

This is why I think that trying to get Rimmer to stop being such an asshole is like drawing blood from a stone in many of the earlier seasons (though we do eventually see some growth after he becomes hard light and Ace).

Even if he has learnt to be better (or fundamentally different to how he was when he was alive), he will unlearn it. It doesn’t matter how much he wants to change.

He can’t.

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[stuckinapril]

i'm really struggling with letting go of people and not vilanizing myself. like if they chose to cut me from their life then i must be a bad guy? :( tbh i was just wondering if u had any advice in regards to this?

The simple truth is people are imperfect and will not always make their decisions based off an objective assessment of who you are as a person. Some people just choose the easy way out (avoiding conflict) by cutting you off completely, bc that’s much easier than deliberating over a problem and handling it in a well-rounded way. What makes this even worse is the fact that that kind of thinking is romanticized by pop psychology advice these days—cutoff culture is bigger now more than ever, even when it’s not necessarily the answer. It gets packaged as a confident, no-nonsense approach; the reality is that some people are too weak (or maybe just not emotionally intelligent enough) to deal w your/their feelings. So they remove you from their life altogether.

Obviously I don’t think this is always the ethical thing to do. Sometimes it is the right call to cut someone from your life, but in typical tiktok fashion, people have taken this too far and misapplied it to relationships that simply deserve more than that. You don’t owe everyone everything, but you do owe some people a form of explanation as to why you’re literally terminating them from your life. It depends on the degree of closeness and the situation that instigated the rift to begin with. Deciding when to cut off and when to communicate is an important skill to have—but not a lot of people have it.

Another possibility is just that you did cross their boundaries, you did something you weren’t supposed to do, it was hurtful enough to warrant this recourse, etc… and in that case you have no choice but to review your behavior, vow to yourself not do it again, and move on. This is your first time being alive. Not your second or your third. You’re bound to make mistakes. Everyone is. That’s where healthy self-compassion comes in: with recognizing these mistakes, but with not beating yourself up for them forever. It may read as cliche, but you’re literally human & mistakes are literally unavoidable. It’s when you refuse to adapt your behavior and move on that issues arise.

If you don’t grant yourself the gift of forgiveness, you’ll find it impossible to forgive anybody else. Be graceful and patient w yourself, but don’t make a habit of repeating mistakes. And don’t ruminate on something that’s in the past. There are 8 billion out there and an abundance of friendships to make. Just because it didn’t work out with someone, doesn’t mean it won’t work out with the countless other people you have a chance of meeting and forming a wonderful connection with

#a good way to look at stuff like this #is it was a lesson preparing you for the people that will walk into your life in the future #it was a valuable experience and something came out of it #contextualizing it simply as ‘I got cut off’ does nothing but hurt you and diminish the importance of what you went through #ask

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 14

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ll be counting my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “You attacked reason. It’s bad theology.”

Number 14 is…Father Brown.

Originally created by author G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown is one of the most famous detectives in English literature. Having said that, I must immediately make a confession: I’m not THAT well-versed (perhaps surprisingly) with the original “Father Brown” short stories Chesterton wrote. I’ve read some of them; specifically, I’ve now read all the ones collected in the book “The Innocence of Father Brown.” (My favorite is “The Invisible Man,” which, for the record, has absolutely nothing to do with anyone named Griffin). However, beyond that, I’m not especially familiar with the original writing. I also have not seen either of the two English-language film versions I know about (one played by Walter Connolly, another by Alec Guinness), both of which were based on the story “The Blue Cross.” And I should also immediately state that I have seen only one episode of the TV series starring Kenneth More from the 1970s, which I know has been highly lauded in years since.

So…since it seems like I am unfamiliar with nearly EVERYTHING that has brought this character into popular culture…how DO I know Father Brown, and why is he so high on the list? Well, because there is one version of the character and his universe that I am VERY familiar with: the most recent TV series adaptation of the stories, which began in 2013 and is still going strong today (with a new season coming this year). This show, simply and appropriately titled “Father Brown,” stars Mark Williams (whom many may recognize for playing Mr. Weasley in the Harry Potter films). While it frequently changes a LOT from the original Chesterton stories, the show is still EXTREMELY good. In my opinion, it modernizes the stories in a way that is pretty decently handled, so that even if you haven’t read the originals, you can still get a lot out of what’s being given to you. The spirit of Chesterton’s work is still intact. Much of what I say here will be informed by Williams’ portrayal of the character, which is why I wanted to make all this clear right off the bat.

Father Brown is an example of what might be called “the busybody detective,” or even more appropriately “the accidental detective.” What I mean by this is that he’s not in any way officially tied to the police; in fact, the police frequently see him as a nuisance, who gets in the way of their work and often makes them look like fools. He also never makes a career or a proper hobby out of his detective work. Being a detective just…kind of happens to him. Father Brown, on the surface, is a simple and humble local priest; a God-fearing, God-loving man of the cloth who is charitable, good-hearted, and at times seems sort of fumbling and shambolic. He’s not someone, therefore, you’d expect would make a great sleuth.

A great sleuth, of course, is exactly what this mild-mannered Catholic priest is. Father Brown’s rather simple demeanor belies a steely will, an even more steely faith, and a very cunning and alert mind. He typically ends up playing detective not so much out of a desire to one-up the police or some obsessive desire, but simply because he notices something amiss and begins to question why that is. His greatest assets as a sleuth can be summed up as two simple attributes: common sense, and, above all, human empathy. Father Brown doesn’t necessarily look for fingerprints or psychoanalyze criminals like a forensic profiler, but simply notices things that don’t make sense and then tries to make sense of them. He uses his understanding of people’s personalities, looks at their character traits and ideals, and uses them to his advantage; if he feels it isn’t in someone’s nature to shoot in cold blood, he follows his instinct, and he’s usually proven correct. If he sees someone showing some weakness or vulnerability, he latches onto that to try and sway them. He tries to redeem his enemies more often than he tries to ruin them. Contrariwise, this man also knows when NOT to trust people. While he’s noble and forgiving, Father Brown isn’t a pushover. In fact, the Williams version is revealed to be a war veteran; he’s seen some action (and horror) in his lifetime. This, combined with his devotion to the confessional booth, means that he knows very well that people are not perfect. With that said, despite being a religious soul, he isn’t superstitious, and tries to be tolerant of others with different beliefs. In short, Father Brown seems to understand that good people are good people, and tries to find the good in everyone, even those he seeks to defeat. Whether you’re spiritual or not, he’s not only a good detective, but arguably a good role model: I think a lot of us wish we had a Father Brown in our lives.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 13!

CLUE: “Are you with me? You might even be way ahead of me.”

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[liannelara-dracula]

have a question for tokyo ghoul boys. What do you think their clothing style in real life would look like or their style in general?

Hi Love,

Yeah this is a good question! Let’s get to it. :)

-Liannelara

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Ken:

He shops at like H&M

On the left is his battle outfit, Shiro vibes.

And he wears black boots and probably has earrings too.

Chains

The middle is for a date.

Right is how he casually dresses for an outing.

He looks so damn fine with these.

He’s never dressed badly tho.

Oh, he might even adapt to some thick black glasses, but he doesn’t look bad he pulls it off.

He mostly wears sneakers, and he wears dark colors.

Hide:

He’s a mix of H&M and Hollister.

Spurs of color all the time because why not?

He likes a lot of stripes/prints on his clothes.

And a lot of weird colors/accessories.

He wears these shoes that are old vans, and Kaneki has tried so hard to have him wear other shoes, and he just never does.

He always wears those old things.

Hide is mostly focused on the comfort and color of his clothes.

Ayato:

Leather jackets all the way.

Left/Right are battle and casual wear; there is no in between.

The middle is when he is on a date/not fighting that day he takes his jacket off.

But that's about it.

And he wears black combat boots all the time.

He's got a punk vibe to him tbh.

And you know he's got them earrings, and it's just a whole vibe.

He does wear a necklace sometimes and occasionally a ring or something.

His shoes or boots rather have insoles because he's insecure of his height.

And he wears them every day, so then when he takes them off it takes him a second to adjust to his actual height.

Yomo:

tight shirts

right: working out/training

middle: date/important event

left: casual

He wears a lot of tanks.

His wardrobe is so bland too.

He only has black, gray, and white clothes.

And literally has like ten shirts that are exactly the same in his closet.

And then you know he of course, has that one trench coat he keeps on all year round.

Uta has tried to give him advice on what to wear but he never takes his advice.

He doesn’t really wear much of anything else.

He’s also more focused on comfort and simple things.

Uta:

Left: Casual/at work

Middle: casual

Right: Date

Cannot dress for sh!t

and like it's a problem.

The photos here are fine, I know, but the minute he uses color, it goes horribly wrong.

Like bruh, he dresses badly in the anime (a lot of the time). 

I mean, you guys did see that ugly suit he was wearing right?

Or am I crazy?

He cannot dress even to save his life, because literally, our artist here thinks throwing something random into the mix is just ok.

But seriously, there are rules.

He doesn’t have much color in his closet in fact, most of his closet in 97% black and 1.9% white and 0.01% random colors.

He wears a lot of loose clothing and rarely wears tight things.

Mostly cause he likes to be comfortable more than anything.

So you won’t see him wear tight jeans all the time, but he sometimes does.

I think he does wear a leather jacket sometimes but it's not always. 

I wish we could’ve of actually seen that in anime. 

Whatever the case his tattoos are always on display.

Like we all know how his shirts are.

Although I don’t think he shows much of his skin.

Like he is so f*cking pale.

He’s never worn shorts in his life.

And I mean, he’s a total goth so we can pretty much guess how his closet looks.

And like always he wears his black shades when he’s out.

Wears a ring on his finger, you know like those thick rings.

Itori has tried to fix his wardrobe but she knows he’s a lost cause so she gave up.

Honestly, he should be arrested for the certain outfits he’s put together before, like tf uta.

Furuta:

Dresses too well, like how!!???

So many nice suits and ties, no one ever has to tell him how to dress.

Isn’t that nice?

He seems like the kinda of guy that is picky about his clothes and literally picks out clothes for his gf.

Like yeah, he’s that kinda guy.

So he likes his women classy.

Which makes sense as to why he dresses nice.

His clothes are expensive too.

Literally,  his closet is full of just strict outfits, no spare shirts or pants, nope.

Every hanger there has a suit/outfit. 

And even different shoes.

I see that he wears a watch too.

He doesn’t show too much skin, but he sometimes rolls up the sleeves of his button-up shirts.

f*ck

Takizawa (ghoul):

Left: Date

Middle: Casual

Right: Casual/At home

T-shirts

leather jacket

jeans and that's pretty much it.

he's simple, but it says a lot about him.

Literally has ten shirts that are the same, and you ask him why.

You've tried to change his wardrobe just a little, but he won't budge.

Only sometimes he will wear white or something because it's a special occasion and he wants to wear the clothes you bought him.

It's only cause he loves you that he'll do it.

You've only gotten him to wear a suit once and boy was it a site.

You were really happy that night bc it was for a fancy date and he was just waiting to get out of the suit. 😂

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[sketching-shark]

Hi hi! I’ve been reading all your posts about Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, and also about your … dissatisfaction with a particular Lego retelling of this monkey character and their handling of him. The reason for this, is I think Flying Barks are trying to write this “Lego Monkie Kid” story in the same manner Dreamworks did with She-Ra and SPOP, and Cartoon Network with Steven Universe. But there’s a reason why those shows work and this one doesn’t:

SPOP: She Ra in its original iteration is just an advertisement show for toys, shallow and simple. This blank slate-like setting allows for its writers to weave complex stories and relationship with its characters, without any hangups about their original ones from before, such as Catra and Adora/She-Ra’s relationship changed from a straightforward enemy-hero dynamic with a rivalry for the affection of one of the male characters, to a complex childhood friends to enemies to lovers story, along with the other characters that also lack depths in the original show changed to be more elaborate.

Steven Universe: The main reason that conflicts happen in this show is because of this one character named Rose Quartz, or Pink Diamond as who she really is, and this show is mainly written to be seen from the lens of her son, Steven Universe, who’s something of an audience point of view in this. Rose started out in this show seen as a deific figure, a one-dimensional embodiment of goodness that Steven tries to emulate and fill in to appease his parental figures who were mourning their loss of her. As the show goes on, it slowly peels back this image, by showing the baggage that the other characters have that were already there before Rose happened, or Pink Diamond, their complicated relationship with her and her influence on them, and the effects that she left behind, good and bad, in the wake of her death. It also shows that Rose, like any other normal person, didn’t start out with the knowledge of what’s right or wrong, who also grew up in a very toxic environment, and the struggles that she goes through in growing to be a better person in a non-linear direction while also hampered by her own self-destructive issues, which results in her decisions that where well-intentioned but not well-thought out. This also impacts other characters, who also affect other people in their grief and how they cope with it as their own person, making it a complicated effect. The reason why we don’t get her true thoughts on this is because she is dead, physically gone from the story and with no way of coming back, and the characters are left with that void with no concrete answers. The fact is that Steven learns of her development in a backwards manner is why he began to grow complicated feeling about her as a person, but it also means he is growing as a person as well as he starts making his own mistakes that are not Rose’s fault, and owning up to them in a way Rose no longer could, while also dealing with his own issues. TLDR Steven Universe is a show about grief of the death of a beloved figure, and the unravelling of said figure’s story in all of their complexities, while dealing with the fact they could never receive their unbiased truth of it. Steven Universe Future mainly deals with Steven’s existential crisis as someone who fought a war, different from his mother’s but still the same effect, and how he’s also dealing with his trauma and growth as a complex person.

As one of the writers work on ROTTMNT, one of more famous iterations of the TMNT franchise, I imagine they think they could apply this approach to Sun Wukong. However, TMNT is actually a simple setting as well: four turtles who were changed by outside forces to be more humanoid and trained to be ninjas by their rat master. This lends to a flexibility in reworking the story and the cast’s roles in all sorts of manner, and is easily accepted by masses The reason why this approach to this Monkey King adaption irritates and puts-off many is because, 1) Sun Wukong originated from a literature work that is already complex and multifaceted to begin with, and is also a metaphorical journey of Buddhism so the attempts to simplify and dumb down the character does not gel well with the theme they represent, 2) Rose was already dead when the show started, and thus she can no longer affect the story, also most of the problems that were affected by PD/Rose’s decisions were just a reaction to it as they already there to begin with and her decisions also paved a way for others to do better for themselves. Sun Wukong is still alive and present, and so far all the show do is paint him as the sole reason where the cast’s problems originated from, which does not bode well for his presence in the story and its meaning, while also seemingly stripping him of any means or power to change it. 3) As Sun Wukong’s roles are already set in and has its reason that makes the story, it requires any other writers to acknowledge both his flaws and virtues without removing his qualities that made him competent and reliable to other characters, as well as the positive impacts that he does make.

I hope this makes sense, as I am not an analytical person by nature, and I don't offend you nor do I wish to impose on you, merely stating my opinion as a neutral party. Have a good month!

Hello there @angstandhappiness, absolutely no offense taken, apologies as always for the complaining lmao, and many thanks for taking the time to write this all out!

I think your reasoning here does make a lot of sense, especially since I can definitely see Flying Bark trying to adapt elements from cartoons that proved themselves to be quite successful, even when it means MASSIVE rewrites for the og classic Monkie Kid is ostensibly a sequel to. I do also think that it certainly isn't fair to say lego show Sun Wukong is presented as the ONLY figure responsible for a lot of the nonsense, what with obvious villains like the Demon Bull Family, Spider Queen, and Lady Bone Demon running around. It's undeniable, however, that the Monkey King has pretty consistently been written as a major screw-up who ultimately had every achievement from the classic undermined or flat-out erased, all while one character after another has yelled at him for being awful. I know people keep saying we need to wait and see more flashbacks from his point of view, but it is hard to dredge up enthusiasm for that given that literally every one of the flashbacks to the past, even from his own perspective, just make him worse and worse either because they confirm he was doing what he did for strictly selfish reasons (don't think I can forgive Flying Bark for deleting his entire monkey yaoguai family lmao) or to just hammer home what a screw-up he's apparently been for centuries. Seen other people say this, but it's one thing to make a character flawed--hell, anyone who's read Journey to the West could tell you how deeply flawed all of its protagonists are--and something completely else to have, as you said, put major focus on SWK's terrible actions all while providing him little opportunity to act otherwise.

It is kind of wild though...I know that the ever-famous Xiyouji itself is often though of as a story of both enlightenment and redemption, and I know that of the redemption stories out there Zuko's from Avatar is still hailed as one of the best, but currently it really seems like the thing a lot of stories supposedly about redemption don't actually want to do is spend the time setting up a satisfying redemption arc. Instead, they just go the route of doubling tripling and quadrupling the increasingly heinous acts of a character before they get a last second redemption. Like sure, you'll get your explodey and/or teary and/or true love's kiss endings where everything works out for the best, but I'll be honest it's been really frustrating seeing how these insta-redemptions mean you're supposed to immediately forget about everything a character pulled up until that point, whether it be bullying, murder attempts, or even multi-planetary genocide.

And I suppose that right there is one of my main gripes with how not just Monkie Kid SWK but multiple other characters have been handled; where they do something harmful, they do something harmful again, the stuff they pull just gets worse and worse and worse, but then instead of that being addressed outside of someone screaming at them well it's time to put down a world-ending threat with their help and then we barely if at all address the shitty things they did, at least until the next time the plot needs angst and drama.

Like thinking back to the season 4 special it could have been an AMAZING story for SWK to start a true journey of redemption by trying to save the Azure Lion by having genuine empathy for this big cat and actively using his own immortality and invulnerability--the very things that apparently made SWK turn away from his sworn brotherhood in the first place--to help Azure instead of just fighting the blue cat and staring at him after being like "how are you alive bro I bodied you myself lol" all while Azure is screaming in pain and disintegrating right in front of the Monkey King (which does make this the second sworn brother to blow up in front of SWK with him barely indicating that he cares haha). But the point being that if you think about it, the Azure Lion here was pretty much what SWK was last season; someone who became so convinced that they and they alone would be able to save the world in spite of just making the situation 1000x worse than it had to be that they pig-headedly plowed ahead no matter the damage until literally the entire universe was in danger of being destroyed. So SWK knows what that's like. He's been there, and very recently too. And it could have been a neat start to his own journey of atonement for the shit he's pulled both past and present to extend some of the compassion and upteenth chances he received from others to the Azure Lion.

Idk, I suppose I would actually like to see SWK genuinely becoming a better person instead of twitter telling me he is and then not actually showing much development in the show itself god bless.

#ask answered #monkey critical

[moviemunchies]

You guys should watch The Sea Beast.

In a world of island empires and giant sea monsters, someone has to make sure that the sea monsters stop attacking human settlements, and that goes to the hunters. Hunters take to the seas in ships fitted with weapons and take down these marine kaiju. Orphaned Maisie desperately wants to be a hunter (despite being a child), especially since her parents died as heroes on a hunter ship while battling a monster, and she sets out to join the most famous and daring hunter crew of all: the Inevitable, led by Captain Crow, first mate Sarah Sharpe, and the courageous Jacob Holland.

But the Inevitable is facing some troubles of its own. After trying but not slaying an infamous beast called the Red Bluster (whom Captain Crow has long-standing enmity with), the monarchy sets a deadline. Except when Maisie and Jacob get separated from the main crew in the fight with the Red Bluster, they start to learn things about the creature, and question the narrative of how the kingdom was made, and if hunting sea beasts was ever the right thing to do in the first place.

So that’s fun.

I think that an interesting aspect of this movie is that in its message about the history of the kingdom and how it’s corrupt, the film really goes into that. A lot of films that try to do commentary on history like this don’t do it on anything other than a surface level. Because telling a moral is simple, but there’s nuance that often gets missed. Like, we can say, “Cutting down all the trees is bad,” all we want, but fact is that a lot of people depend on the business of cutting down trees in order to make their living, and that’s the only job they can find.

Incidentally, that’s how the old animated adaptation of The Lorax handled things. Also the animated series Gargoyles? Very often it would have stories about guns or deforestation, and the morals would be complex–not that “Guns are bad,” but that “People who own guns have a responsibility to take care of them safely,” or no that “Cutting down the rainforest is bad so you should punch those people,” but “Those people are trying to make a living, so be mindful of how you handle this situation.”

So The Sea Beast presents this culture which has lionized sea beast hunters, and it points out that a lot of people have died in battles with sea beasts and are viewed as heroes. When it questions this notion of “People HAVE to kill the sea beasts,” it shakes a lot of the characters because they see those killed as heroes and can’t accept anything else. 

But sometimes heroes can be wrong, The Sea Beast says. It doesn’t say these people weren’t heroes, or that their sacrifices and struggles weren’t noble–they were. That doesn’t mean the cause they fought for was just. It wasn’t.

And that’s an interesting message in today’s world, where we’re becoming rather obsessed with looking at our own heroes and putting them, and their causes, under the microscope (and I don’t think that’s a bad thing in and of itself). The movie points out that maybe that guy you idolized in the past, or that hero ancestor you brag about, could have been a great guy! But that doesn’t change that his or her side of the conflict was the right one, and we can move past it.

I had recently been thinking that it would be really nice to see more nautical fantasy–high fantasy in a setting that reflects the seafaring age. This isn’t precisely what I had in mind, but it’s darn close. The design of the ships is familiar to anyone who is into stories about pirates or naval battles, and watching our characters dash around the deck and rigging in their battles with these monsters is quite thrilling.

[Apparently a lot of work went into making sure the ropes looked good? A lot of pioneering in animation has been done in making water and surfaces look good, but the crew of this movie had to make sure, with all the ships and such, that the ropes looked authentic as well.]

The creature design in this movie is fantastic–I thought they’d go with fairly generic looking sea monsters, like a giant shark, a giant squid, and a sea serpent, but they managed to do creative designs for pretty much every creature in the film. I do think that the Red Bluster’s face looks an awful lot like Toothless, which is a bit odd, but I don’t think that was intentional–I think both sets of animators were working on getting a creature with somewhat feline facial features, and that was a coincidence that came out of it.

I think that if there’s one real weakness with the movie, it’s that the antagonist storyline is not really that well defined? It’s suggested that the reason people get up in arms about sea beasts is because the people in power established a narrative that they have to–but it’s unclear why this narrative benefits them that much? If we saw the monarchs getting super rich off of slain sea beasts or something, but it’s only vaguely explained that they get to dominate the seas because of it. And this subplot goes unresolved. I expect that having a French Revolution-style takedown of the people in power would not do well in a children’s movie, but it just seems as if the people realize they’ve been manipulated and the monarchs cower and that’s… it?

I guess?

Still, it’s a good movie. It’s a fantastic family film, it’s got great animation, memorable characters, delightfully-designed monsters, and awesome action sequences. It’s a fantasy film with an original setting, and Lord knows we need more original stories out there these days. I am delighted with this movie, and it’s great fun. Watch it if you can.

#Movie Munchies #reviews #The Sea Beast #Netflix

[practicalmagicintuitions]

Regarding the anon about the author, he said he's seen better and he's seen worse. The Netflix show and game are not the first or last adaptations of the story. Lauren contacted him about the show and said he didn't want to be a part of it and that he believed in artists freedom of expression. I stopped supporting all of Cavill's work personally. Stopped watching after season 1. Can't lie though I found that comment on matching the reading tantalizing! Spill the tea anon! 🤣

As for the Jonah Hill thing, my first thought was that old adage when someone tells you who they are, you should listen. I don't agree with all his personal boundaries but he spelled it out right there on the kind of person he was. He's free to have boundries. And the girl was free to walk if they didn't fit her life. I don't care if someone uses therapy speak. If what they said is an ultimatum that doesn't match my needs/wants/life etc. Then I'm out. It is that simple but us humans love to complicate it for one reason or another. Obviously I have no inside knowledge but I bet she thought if she sticks around for awhile and shows him some loyalty he'll change. He'll get more secure in himself and in the relationship and it will get better. Nope! You need to look and accept that person for who they are in that moment. Not what they could be, should be, would be.

“Obviously I have no inside knowledge but I bet she thought if she sticks around for awhile and shows him some loyalty he'll change. He'll get more secure in himself and in the relationship and it will get better. Nope! You need to look and accept that person for who they are in that moment. Not what they could be, should be, would be.“

I SO agree with this.

For the record I think Jonah Hill is extremely insecure, that’s why he needed to rely on therapy talk aka others thoughts but at least that means he is willing to go to a therapy and thy to improve himself, be more aware. Being in a relationship with an insecure person is extremely daunting but this alone doesn’t make the relationship abusive or even toxic. I think his biggest mistake was ( and I never understand this) the need to keep a friendship with his ex. No. This is not a possibility especially if the main disagreement was having/not having a family. The way he said “look, maybe I am not for you, go on separate ways if our needs don’t align etc” for me is super grown up and adult thinking and shows he didn’t want to tie the girl to himself or didn’t blackmailed her emotionally. The girl’s responses and actions are super immature though. She definitely thought she will got the ring if she sticks. And this is a perfect example for you ladies. Never date or invest time into a potential. So I think they were not compatible, but she is butthurt and posting those screenshots is just effin low.

About Sapkowskij: I think he just loves money and sold the rights and doesn’t care that much until he gets his share. Which is okay if he is okay with it. But this still doesn’t legitimize Lauren’s unbelievably bad writing. Wattpad is nobel prize worthy compare to her storytelling.

About the anon an rhe tea. Maybe I was just too careful not to share this, idk. Anon said it seems HC indeed bought his house throughout a company which can be in fact reduce costs like taxes. Allegedly! Which is totally align with my reading on the matter. So we will see if anything will be more clear or specific on this subject. I obviously didn’t see any document or anything so it could be just a rumor. But I don’t think this is only a gossip.

[brightgnosis]

Wrong Is Wrong- But That doesn’t Mean The End Of the World

The fact of the matter is that wrong is wrong, and that’s that. So if it’s wrong, then it’s wrong- and factual, scientific, political, cultural, and historical (etc) accuracy ultimately doesn't care about your personal emotions on the matter any more than they care about mine; that's all there really is to it, and there's no arguing about it.

However, there's this perennial penchant for us to constantly make the action of "being wrong" all about ourselves, and turn it into the highest degree of personal ethical and moral failure ... But that's not the case at all; people really need to get over the emotional turmoil and upset, and the internal horror, of being wrong. Because it's genuinely not a big deal at all.

Indeed, to make mistakes and error is to be Human; being wrong is a completely normal, routine, and everyday part of life- one which will happen no matter how much we strive for perfection (a task which is nonsense and will only ever result in failure anyways); even true experts and masters (not just the anyones who can start a blog or write a book or make a Youtube video, and become an overnight authority and armchair expert without any legitimate training or education on any topic at all) are often wrong about things.

The entire idea that you must always be correct, and that being wrong is a complete moral and ethical failure which makes you a bad (or worse: evil) person? Is ultimately nothing more than a disgusting piece of Purity Culture that needs to be done away with. Especially when it causes overly emotional and unnecessarily belligerent reactions because we were wrong (and get told as much); it- and the behavior it causes- has no place when it comes to activism, let alone among people who claim to care about education, mutual understanding, and self growth, etc.

Many people, however, despite such claims, are perfectly content with remaining blissfully unaware of their wrongness. And when faced with the fact they are wrong, they shut down; they do get belligerent about it. Or worse, they shove their heads in the sand because they don't want to be made uncomfortable; and neither want to do the genuine work of reexamining the people they trust, the worldviews they’ve formed, or even their sense and understanding of self, because such work is difficult to perform. It's much easier to continue as is in our wrongness.

This is especially true when this perennial fear or wrongness (and that wrongness equates to badness) is coupled with the additional idea also born of Purity Culture, that wrongness equals abandonment; that because something is wrong on some level (any level at all), that it must be completely done away with altogether.

Being educated on your wrongness doesn’t always mean you have to drop everything that was wrong, abandon it, and completely change all direction and course- never deigning to touch or mention the previous thing ever again- however. And to act as if it does? Shows a complete lack of emotional or intellectual maturity on every level. Not to mention a complete inability to think outside one’s own short term comfort and desires; it’s a toddler’s mentality. The shortsighted mentality of a temper tantrum- not a capable, learned, and well adaptable practitioner. 

The reality is that sometimes (not always, but sometimes) it’s as simple as slightly adjusting course to incorporate the new information. And sometimes that alone is as easy as finding out you’re wrong happens to be as simple as learning that ...

“Danu wasn’t a real Goddess. She was a linguistic error produced through shoddy reverse etymological reconstruction by one dude, for whom no legitimate archeological or loric evidence actually exists”

And merely deciding ...

“Well I know this Spirit I’m dealing with Can’t actually be the ancient Irish Goddess Danu, then, because that would be impossible... But I can continue to call my Spirit Danu because that is the name and mask it chose to appear to me under, as long as I am careful to be clear that Danu isn’t an ancient Goddess and there’s no evidence of her”.

And that’s it ... That’s all one needs to do, and no harm is done; the actual factual inaccuracy of the matter has been addressed and corrected, but no significant change had to be made to one’s practice otherwise.

Education and the correction of inaccuracy does not need to always mean complete destruction- nor does it mean an inherent moral and ethical failure on the part of the person who was perpetuating or participating within it. And the second we stop pretending it does is the moment we can finally start having real conversations about education, what it means to be educated (and what being educated means for our religions), what it means to educate others, and the importance of all of us being educated. 

Otherwise we’re just going to continue playing out the same childish nonsense because someone pointed out an inaccuracy and we took it personally, because we’re so consumed by Purity Culture that we can’t actually separate out the completely natural human wrongness from personal moral and ethical failure.

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[wahbegan]

The Black Phone Review

So, since there isn’t much in the way of an actual review of the movie in The Black Phone tag, primarily because it’s full of....ahem....other things, I thought I’d give writing one a spin, since I do that sometimes.

So far, i honestly have no idea if the Stephen King curse of having 95% of all adaptations of his work suck shit is hereditary or not. Joseph Hillstrom King, better known as Joe Hill (whose pen name is apparently because he doesn’t want to live in his father’s shadow, but honestly i think it’s because he doesn’t want to go by Joe King because it sounds like a fake name the fucking Joker would make up), only has four adaptations to his name, present company excluded. So far. The Locke and Key Netflix series, the NOS4A2 AMC series, and the films In the Tall Grass and Horns. And In the Tall Grass was co-written with Stephen King, so it’s more like three and a half.

Now I’ve never seen the tv shows because i haven’t read Locke and Key and because NOS4A2 is by far and away my favorite of Joe Hill’s novels, and i almost know for a fact that it would disappoint me because of the love i have for that book and the image of it built in my head. But they both got good reviews. Not STELLAR, but good.

In the Tall Grass was received about as well as any other adaptation Stephen King gets his filthy mitts on, and Horns was pretty much considered mediocre. Just...fine, i guess.

So we’re in this limbo here with Joe Hill adaptations, which is a shame, because by and large, i actually (HERESY ALERT) tend to like his work better than his father’s. None of his movie adaptations have been just hilariously fucking awful like a lot of Stephen’s, but none of them have really been fucking solid gold diamond-studded hallmarks of cinema like the select few of Stephen’s, either.

So it’s a bit odd to me that Scott Derickson picked The Black Phone to adapt. I mean Hill only has four novels to his name, the rest being comics and short stories, and someone already has the rights to The Fireman, while Heart-Shaped Box languishes in development Hell for idk 15 years, so it’s understandable he’d go for a short story.

But still, The Black Phone is a very simple story, about ten pages long, with all of the action confined to a brief kidnapping scene and one room. Certainly an ambitious thing to try to tackle, but i was worried about how much expanding on the story the movie was going to have to do.

I was then further worried by the trailers, because whoever edited them honestly needs to be taken out back and shot. Those despicable fucking trailers that just take you beat-by-beat through the movie, first of all, and also edited lines of dialogue to, inexplicably, make them sound much less natural and much more expository and heavy-handed than they actually were.

Also, you may remember Scott Derickson as the lad who did Sinister. Ohh, now it makes sense why he’d pick this movie, he fucking loves mixing true crime with dead kids jump scaring his audience. And I was worried it would be too much like Sinister, where the truly fucking harrowing part of that movie (the snuff films) ended up taking a backseat to his love of dead kids running about and over-the-top goofy looking villains.

Again, this wasn’t helped by the trailers, which put the dead kids and the killer’s mask (not present in the original story, in which he was just some fat, gross-looking guy) front and center, including a group shot of all the dead kids blocking the road that Derickson pretty much copy/pasted from Sinister.

But this is Joe Hill, i thought, and i actually have a girl to take to see it, and it’s getting good reviews, so what the hell.

So does it do it? Does The Black Phone finally make a Joe Hill adaptation that is as extremely good or extremely bad as one of his dad’s?

Well.....no. Not...really. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of movie that is so good it’s going to be culturally revered or anything.

This is all just my expectations, though. Which muddied things a lot. My advice? Just don’t watch the trailers at all, and don’t think of Sinister or the legacy of Stephen King when you watch it. And for the sweet love of merciful Christ, don’t think of what lurks in The Black Phone tag on tumblr. Take it as its own thing.

Because as its own thing, it’s a very fucking good movie. 

Everything Sinister did wrong, The Black Phone does right. The supernatural elements are actually used fairly lightly, and almost all the horror in the movie comes from how fucked up the all-too-familiar true crime situation is. A boy stops to help a seemingly clumsy, friendly doofus who took a pratfall and spilled his magician’s act all over the pavement. The next thing he knows, he’s got wasp spray in his eyes and is being bundled into a van. And this isn’t the first time. 

Those kidnappings serve the same purpose the snuff films in Sinister did, but are a lot less in-your-face and just let you simmer in the implications.

Even Ethan Hawke’s masked child-killer, The Grabber, doesn’t appear very often. It’s the tension. The mystery of what, exactly, he does to kids between kidnapping and murdering them. The horrible but very nicely restrained descriptions of some, but not all, of the atrocities committed on his victims. The heavy implication, but refusal to outright confirm that he’s a pedophile. The agonizingly long shots of his victim trying to escape his basement dungeon, knowing that he could appear at any moment.

This wouldn’t work as well if The Grabber wasn’t acted superbly, but he really is. Ethan Hawke is fucking terrifying, which is not an adjective I would have ever used for him before, but he really is. He plays The Grabber with this....softness is the wrong word, but at least a front of it. A disquieting and jarring childishness in some scenes, a clear immaturity. Whether he’s just stunted emotionally or putting on a front for his victim’s sake isn’t clear, but either way it gets under your skin.

Especially because they never tell you anything about this guy. Not even his name. There’s no backstory of abuse, no rounds with his therapist, no diary, nothing. All we have to go on is Ethan Hawke’s excellent performance and tiny scraps of implication. It makes his behavior and mood swings harder to predict in a very refreshing way. 

Like most abusers, he wasn’t angry the majority of the time. Wasn’t outwardly threatening. Even his weird Devil mask, while ostentatious, seems to be less of a fright mask and more of his own bizarre, childish way of expressing his mood and persona at the time. He swaps it out between a completely mouthless version when speaking to the protagonist just after the kidnapping, a sickening grin when he dotes on his victim and brings him food, and an exaggerated, pouty frown when he waits at the top of the stairs, shirtless, holding a belt, just waiting for him to try to escape.

I know a lot of people think that image is hot. Let me be clear, it is probably the single scariest fucking shot of the movie. I just couldn’t stop thinking of some incredibly damaged, sick motherfucker imitating what he saw as a kid. Making a vaudeville horror show out of child abuse. 

Yes, this is one of the most effective horror movie killers in recent history.

But there’s so much more to the movie than that! The protagonist and his sister are also both played fucking stunningly, both being given a LOT of VERY heavy material to work with. Abuse, bullying, the kidnapping that forms the crux of the movie, and they nail it. The sister’s hysterical screams and sobs as their father beats her while the brother watches, angry out of his mind but paralyzed with fear is....

Jesus.

This movie is very gritty, by the way. Not in an over-the-top, in-your-face way, just a...an air of detached realism. It’s set in the late ‘70s, but instead of the nostalgic sheen recent media puts over everything from that fucking era, it’s portrayed in a very naturalistic way. There’s some lovely use of 8mm film, the lighting and costuming department did a very good job capturing the look of the era, and most importantly, childhood in the ‘70s, when beating your kids was still pretty normalized, missing faces got printed on milk cartons, and stranger danger was at its peak. 

It’s not glamorized at all, is me point. 

BUT it’s also not all doom and gloom. The kids are the main stars of this movie, and they do an amazing job at not just being victim, but being survivors and rising above the bullshit they go through. The protagonist’s little sister in particular is an incredible character, given some of the best lines in the movie.

And over the titular Black Phone...the dead children are played as scary a bit. Thrice, in fact. There are three jump scares, one of which made a woman in my theater scream. But for the most part, they’re not played for horror. They’re played for a surprisingly meditative melancholy. They’re played for just fucking sadness at the young lives cut brutally short, whatever innocence they had lost.

And by the end, they’re played for a sense of camaraderie in darkness that really fucking tugs at your heartstrings. I was not expecting this movie to be as emotional as it was. 

So in the end, The Black Phone is gripping, tense as fuck, psychological, pretty fucking harrowing, depressing and cathartic all at the same time. The direction and art are quite nice, and i don’t have many problems with it.

James Ransome’s character is a little weird, sticks out just a mite, buuuutt that can be forgiven. It is also very Stephen King-y, with absolutely psychotic bullies and an abusive alcoholic father, although his abuse and alcoholism are both contextualized in a bizarrely grounded way.

Finally, yeah, just a content warning, in case you haven’t already picked it up. As I said, there are no explicit mentions of or depictions of pedophilia  but it is heavily implied. No kids are shown being murdered, but they do talk about it, and they do get the shit kicked out of them both by other kids and by their parents. I mean violence against children is the principal theme of this movie so, while it ultimately ends on a pretty uplifting note, i’d still avoid it if you’re squeamish about that sort of thing.

But will it be remembered alongside The Shining or The Shawshank Redemption? Or even the recent IT movies? Fuck no, but i would venture a guess and say it’s definitely the best Joe Hill adaptation to date

#The Black Phone #Joe Hill #Scott Derickson #i should make a tag for my reviews you know what i will #reviews

[mytly4]

After the crapfest that was Game of Thrones seasons 5–8, I initially had no intention of watching House of the Dragon. I took no interest in all the hype leading up to its release and had only the vaguest idea about the casting and other such behind-the-scenes stuff, and that too, I learnt only passively, i.e. because I followed people on tumblr who posted about such stuff. But once the show started airing, I found myself flooded with a whole bunch of discussions, gifs, and metas on social media, and most of what I saw seemed overwhelmingly positive. So I decided to check it out … and was pleasantly surprised. Like, really surprised! It’s not just ‘not bad’, it’s actually good!!

HotD is one of those extremely rare beasts: a book-to-screen adaptation that actually improves on the source material! Ok, so some of that is because the source material is sort of lacking. One of GRRM’s main strengths as a writer in ASOIAF is his command over the limited-third-person-POV style that allows him to get into the heads of such a vastly different range of characters. But the story of the Dance of the Dragons (in all its iterations, i.e. in The Princess and the Queen + The Rogue Prince, The World of Ice and Fire, and Fire and Blood) is not in this style. It’s in the pseudo-historical style, written by biased masters writing centuries after the fact – a style that does no favours to the characters (even when the fictional authors try to paint certain characters in a good light). So it was really great to see HotD giving considerable depth to characters like Alicent, Rhaenyra, Viserys I, etc. who are mainly two-dimensional in the source, despite being some of the main characters. It’s also nice to see relationships being given more depth, such as Rhaenyra and Alicent starting off as friends and then slowly becoming enemies as their personal lives and political alliances pull them apart. Changes such as this – or another of my favourites, the depth given to Rhaenyra and Laenor’s relationship and the much better ending Laenor gets – are excellent examples of how a screen adaptation can improve the source material enormously with just a few tweaks.

Apart from the improvements to the source material, it’s great to see just how much better this show is even than GoT seasons 1–4*, in terms of visual worldbuilding. Sure, some of this is undeniably because HotD is working with a much larger budget than at least the first couple of seasons of GoT (i.e. before it became a media juggernaut). But a lot of it is just because the people working on HotD – from writers and directors to set and costume designers – seem to be much more interested in portraying how the people and places in a medievalesque court would look and how the people would spend their time. The beautifully embroidered clothes, the rich brocades (in a variety of colours! – something that GoT somehow never managed to depict), the gorgeous wall paintings and tapestries, the unusual objects in Corlys Velaryon’s hall… visually, this show is a delight. (The lighting still leaves a lot to be desired, though… *sigh*.) People actually do ordinary, daily stuff, like read in their bedroom (or in the godswood), hang out with their kids, indulge in their own hobbies, entertain guests, dance at a party, and so on. It’s such simple stuff, but it makes the characters seem like actual human beings, who have lives beyond what we see of them onscreen.

*(I refuse to consider GoT seasons 5–8 as serious attempts at making a TV show. The last season, in particular, was literally just a naked attempt at raking in as much money as possible while getting away with as little work as possible on the part of the showrunners/writers. Even the people with actual talent, i.e. the actors, the set and costume designers, etc. were just phoning it in by that point.)

Of course, all of this praise doesn’t mean that HotD is above criticism. In one way, it seems to have doubled down on GoT’s flaws, with every episode so far showing people being injured and/or killed in horribly gruesome ways (IMO, Vaemond Velaryon and Joffrey Lonmouth’s deaths are tied for the prize of ‘most horrifying onscreen death ever’). At least GoT managed to space out its gore a bit. And unfortunately, HotD is going to only get worse, once the actual war starts.

Then there are the deaths in childbirth, GRRM’s favourite misogynistic trope, dialled up to eleven, with Aemma Arryn’s horrifying C-section in the first episode, to Laena Velaryon’s death by dragonfire during childbirth (something that I wouldn’t have even thought possible). I get that these deaths were necessary plotwise, but couldn’t they have been done less viscerally? While Aemma’s death in childbirth makes sense in terms of the overarching themes of the show, there was no reason for Laena to die in childbirth. Why not change her death to something else entirely? If she needed a ‘dragon rider’s death’, why not have her die fighting on dragonback?

Oh well, despite these issues, I am cautiously optimistic about this show. It’s excellent so far in terms of characterization and visual storytelling, and the casting seems to be pretty good. I assume by now (i.e. season 1, episode 8) we’ve met all the actors who’ll be playing the final version of the main characters (except presumably Aegon III and Viserys II – they seem to be too young so far to play any role, so presumably they, or at least Aegon III, will be played by older kids later on).

A few random thoughts:

I guess Daeron the Daring has been left out of the show? I’m not particularly bothered – there are already a lot of characters, and he’s the most expendable one from among the younger generation.

How many seasons is this show going to be anyway? I assume around 3–4 seasons, going by the speed of the narrative so far. But that depends on what endpoint they choose. I guess the Hour of the Wolf is the most logical endpoint, though it’s possible they may stretch out the story (or change the order of the events) all the way till the end of Aegon III’s regency, or at least till Alicent’s death.

Ramin Djawadi’s music is always a delight, but I do wish the theme song had been changed at least slightly, instead of being the exact same as GoT’s theme song. It’s not the same show – why use the same theme song?

#house of the dragon #anti game of thrones #fire & blood spoilers #hotd #hotd review