I guess I'm into 60s British tv now.
Not gonna make it. Movies and old anime on occasion. He/Him
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I guess I'm into 60s British tv now.
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Oh the pain of being Finnish. You can be watching Patrick McGoohan's personal-political masterpiece of the Cold War, hollowing democracy and the self via Kafka and Warhol, and all you're thinking is "holy shit, is that Number Two sitting in beloved Finnish design classic the Ball Chair?".
I like to imagine Imanishi spending twenty years regretting not giving Cima a girlfriend and then jumping at the chance to fix his error.
Babylon 5 did lots of in-universe tv broadcasts, like news reports, at least one documentary and panel discussions. They were still part of the narrative so not quite what you mean, but they still did a lot to make the world more alive.
At least all of us who'll miss the Great Snatch this week will have her to look forward to.
It's nice that Hartley apparently never lost his T&A craft, despite the conversion. Must have been a relief to many a Christian teen reader.
Here he's quoting Simone de Beauvoir with approval. Absolutely not a dogmatic thinker.
"Critical reading" is understood to mean specifically just sort of repeatedly pointing out the things you dont enjoy about the text as a kind of apology for enjoying it.
I've heard this but I didn't get the logic of the insult. Is it like "your father is so bad at supporting the family financially he might as well be a mom"?
#art storytime
I think at least Vallejo's color charts give a pretty good idea of what the paint looks like.
The Silmarillion has no sex scenes either, but it's clearly a much more sexual work with desire as a central motivating factor. In comparison, LOTR feels like it's still in children's literature mode.
Absolutely no m/m relationships, though.
I'd argue there's minor things, like Wendy/Nyla and Maisie/Ireesha are implied to be couples, Sabina's fans are all girls, two of Suletta's opponents in 13 are girls and thus trying to marry Miorine, and no one bats an eye when they realize Suletta and Miorine aren't just fake engaged anymore.
Jagger tykkää rahasta, mutta on noin yleisesti arvoiltaan turhan liberaali Charlie Kirkin faniksi. On sen lisäksi piruillut Trumpille keikkojen välispiikeissä.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Yoshiyuki Tomino: War turns us into tools. Nothing more than the instruments of the very weapons we supposedly wield. And the fate of all tools is to be discarded. Me: Damn... that's crazy. Tomino: You know what else is crazy? Women. Me: I... uh...?
Thanks for scanning it! Is this a mid-90s release? The characters look very Slayers-y.
What if Lacus and Meer were played by muppets and everyone else was animated?
Perhaps the finest embodiment of wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of accepting the beauty of transience and imperfection, is the campy 90s adventure show for children and lesbians who had no other options.
I rewatched it recently. Totally holds up, Robert Zombie's masterpiece.
Suletta's such a sweetheart. I remember there being all sorts of theories of how she and Miorine would reunite as part of a daring rescue mission and then she just went to talk to her.
And if someone absolutely needs written confirmation, the final bluray (released after the up to interpretation debacle) came with an interview with the director where he says they're married, twice.
I did enjoy the Maginot's science officer letting two samples escape through two unrelated acts of carelessness five minutes apart.
"I found a girlfriend so I no longer want to fight the guys who killed billions 🙂" is indeed not a good look.
"Cut! Ms. Sweeney, the line is 'Sieg 𝘡𝘦𝘰𝘯'"
Coming to a streaming service near you (rainbows sparkle in the distance): Brittany always felt that she was different. But one day, there was a boy. And that boy? He was also different. Because they were both fairies. Literal fairies who are not a metaphor for anything.
Ehkä sienet on vaan poimittu Innsmouthista.
I guess the modern fandom has better access to the original work and has a more complete understanding of Ukyo than "she's the good one".
Kamille becomes an orphan and then a pivotal figure in world history because he just wouldn't stop escalating a situation caused by a minor insult he wasn't even meant to hear.
fire emblem: three horses 💙❤️💛 #FE3H × #umamusume
But does he know about his career as a Gundam villain?
From what I've seen, lots of mecha anime of the day liked to have somewhat bland heroes who'd act as anchors for the more colorful side characters. Kamille is not that. I like what they do with older Amuro, though.
Hindulaisuushan periytyy protoindoeurooppalaisesta uskonnosta, samoin kuin viikinkien uskonto. Kristinusko on sitten vähän kaukana molemmista.
One of my favorite film history anecdotes is that Pasolini was concerned about how the film would affect the young actors so he made it a very fun set. Some of the kids were shocked by how dark the film turned out after they'd had such a great summer camp experience making it.
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The Howard stories compare Conan the Barbarian to a tiger 35 times and a panther 26 times. Is he thus not canonically a catboy?
I haven't seen anyone celebrating his assassination, just people having zero empathy for a fascist who explicitly believed things like this are an acceptable price to pay for the second amendment.
Which isn't to excuse or explain away Wagner's extremely clear and self-professed antisemitism. Just commenting on the logic of the work itself.
Alberich enslaves the other dwarves, who according to the text are normal, decent people. Mime wants to do the same. But yeah, the work realizes the dwarves aren't really worse than the other characters. Wotan is the same as Alberich, only he becomes suicidal instead of going for one more scheme.
I agree, but I'd note that there's no reason to assume the shooter is a leftist. Luigi and the would-be Trump assassins weren't, and lots of MAGA people hated Kirk's guts.
Why would you even hire her if you aren't prepared to handle a little social media heat? That was such a mild comment too.
Today I learned Gold Ship can recover from slow metabolism by bullying McQueen.
That three-week diarrhea didn't kill him, only the shame inside him.
Those pervy Margaret Brundage covers are so much fun.
Seems like it.
I was a little worried, but it held up well on a more knowledgeable rewatch. I didn't really care for all of the references, but its take on classic Gundam themes worked really well. Plus, I think I understood the plot this time.
Have you rewatched GWitch now that you're much more familiar with Gundam?
I liked the Acolyte, but surely no one needed a character turning to the camera to say the jedi trying to suppress their emotions is bad.
Yeah, the game would have been insufferable if Kreia really was the author's mouthpiece earnestly criticizing Star Wars for whatever. Her being a bizarre extremist who's clearly wrong about some things and probably insincere about others is so compelling.
Her classic Tarot book, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, is a good read too.
Unless the last one is "crank theory a very influential editor fell for".
Happens to the best of us. I kind of like Gramsci's interpretation, probably just as unlikely, of the Prince being an expose of the ruling class's methods meant for ordinary people.
So what are some of the lit professor affair books? I kind of want to read one. I assume there has to be one by Updike.
Contrary to its reputation, The Prince isn't that bloodthirsty of a book. It does think a prince must be capable of ruthless action if necessary (it was a brutal world), but a major theme is that you must not oppress your people. The book's ideal prince is more Tywin Lannister than Joffrey.
No, that's a discredited idea Rousseau came up with but which lives on in pop culture. The Prince is Machiavelli trying to get a job with the aristocratic Medicis, so he's not flying his republican colors, but experts think the advice is sincere.
It's been a long, long time, but most of the funniest bits that stuck with me seem to be in Restaurant.
I think part of what I love about the Battle Hymn of the Republic so much is that it escalates in an absolutely unhinged direction, reminding me of the key and peele UFC sketch
Yeah, that's the title. It's on Netflix.
I'm delighted that the Autumn boomercore hit Thursday Murder Club, seemingly accidentally, made Helen Mirren's character incredibly evil.
Ash had orders to "bring back lifeform" and was a sudden replacement on the crew, so they probably knew a decent amount. In an earlier version of the script WY had deciphered the message and knew exactly what was there, but later revisions are more ambiguous.
Plus that sinking feeling you get as you realize THIS was the plan he roped our boys into is one of the greatest parts of Gundam.
You can't even blame it on the source material, since the worst of the Houlihan bullying is apparently original to the film. Altman didn't write the script, but its otherwise so clearly his film he could have surely gotten those scenes changed if he wished. Wonder what was up with that.
SEED is mediocre but redeemed by the much better sequel.
I don't think he even likes using sex as a tool. Reccoa and Quess were practically begging him to manipulate them with sex and he was extremely reluctant.
To save the series, Bandai must immediately launch a Gundam Princess sub-franchise.
Ai taida valitettavasti kuulua Lindtmanin suunnitelmiin.
This is such a good episode.
In what version of the story is the monster an unsympathetic agent of evil and chaos?
They must treat Alice in Wonderland like the Turner Diaries in Gotham City.
Cel animation looks better than digipaint. I will die on this hill.
It's such a good arrangement too. Really brings the song to life compared to the boring 70s soft rock recording.
Wagner's libretti don't align with Nazi ideology. They're ambiguous works heavily influenced by anarchism, socialism and Schopenhauer. Tristan and Isolde is about the heroes cucking their king, Ring about the evil of choosing power over love, Parsifal about pacifism and compassion.
Great thread! In a sense McGillis choosing not to trust his friends is rational, but his plan still requires a leap of faith by trusting that Bael will make the rest of Gjallarhorn follow him. It's unimaginably sad he's willing to bet on that but not his loved ones, as you show.
OHHHHH, that's those pieces clicked into place.
Fuck with their pay AND station them in your capital? Classic move.
Probably the general insularity. The classics being revalued are the "golden age" stuff - no one's going after Mary Shelley or HG Wells - which was its own little world revolving around a few significant editors with their own preferences and worldviews. These are not shared by most modern fans.
Has Heinlein's reputation declined that much? Obviously he was a weird crank with mostly bad politics, but I still found the Moon is a Harsh Mistress a good book when I read it for the first time a few years ago.
I still remember a montage of newspaper image captions where the white guys carrying food were "gathering supplies" and the black people with the same items were "looting supermarkets".
It had way more ambition and ideas than you'd reasonably expect of an animated short projected onto an uneven mall wall. There's still no proper home release of it, is there?
Agnes Tachyon, Curren Chan and Super Creek's routes are already pretty close. Mayano too, but maybe best to steer clear of that. I'd wanna see how they pull off Gold Ship. Finally Symboli Rudolf just cause I like her.
Today I learned there's a hifi company called German Physiks. Awkward.
Actually, you can find OVA III subtitled on the same website.
Sure, the two shorts are called Lady Gablae and Pentagona Dolls. You can find them subtitled in the link. There's also three OVA episodes these shorts were originally bundled with. The first two are recaps while the third one is an original story. I think those are included in some torrents.
Amuro kissing girls is the worst.
Cab Calloway providing the singing and dance moves to an evil ghost walrus who scares Betty Boop.
What if the next Final Destination showed that Death is not a conscious force and small-town America just has appalling fire and electricity safety practices?
I don't know how much it means coming from gentile fingertips, but compassion, independence and caring more about what is righteous than popular are some of the noblest traits of the Jewish intellectual tradition. You're right in line with those.
KGB officers reportedly loved John le Carré's novels.
I didn't really get BL before getting into Gundam, but it turns out thse kinds of complex, obsessive male relationships are actually really compelling. He'd have absolutely helped you, McGillis, and Carta too. All you needed to do was talk to them honestly.
Yeah, but the campaign failed to get any of the works they championed awarded and the puppies only did it because of how progressive scifi had gotten, and I don't think anything's changed since then. The Hugo for best novel has gone to a guy once in the last decade, for instance.
You must run in better Gundam circles than me. Here's a thread about the Seed affair one: bsky.app/profile/siny...
Synthesis: Char is good because he's overhyped in-universe; an imperfect and broken man with a mixture of heroic and villainous traits who couldn't handle the expectations placed on him by himself and others.
08th MS's director Kanda dying in a car crash, 00's second season's plot being a result of executives overriding the original plans, a SEED affair whose details I don't even want to repeat; all things fully invented by Western fans.
Most behind the scenes facts that are common knowledge in the Western fanbase are false.
Yeah, looking it up, there's apparently lots of collections. The numbering starting at 114 just threw me off.
