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Steph in Batgirls (2021).

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Chrono Trigger Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1995

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Finally got around to watching I saw the tv glow and I’ve had an incomprehensible sense of dread ever since 🙂‍↕️

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Cass in Batgirls (2021).

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The Mechanical Monsters (1941) Directed by Dave Fleischer

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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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ID credit: 5416025956 on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

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doggie!!

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Realized I hadn't announced this here. I'm the Story Editor on Avatar: Seven Havens! (for non-animation industry folks, Story Editor is the lead writer under the showrunners).

Heads up to anyone following me from previous work like Trollhunters or Star Trek: Prodigy: this tumblr is gonna be sharing more Avatar stuff, especially as we now have our official first art! This is Avatar Pavi, her cat-monkey Geet, and her friend and sorta-mentor Jae. The city behind her is called Ellora. We're deep in production and it's looking spectacular.

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VOGUE 2007/ SEPTEMBER ISSUE

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Crashing at a friend's place recently, I had the opportunity to watch six, maybe seven late-period Steven Seagal movies over the course of a long weekend. If you've ever considered dipping a toe into this deeply cursed streaming subcategory, I'm here to report there's only one entry you really need: Out for a Kill. Released in 2003, it's a fascinating bridge between Seagal's Under Siege prime and his present day, stuntman-for-climbing-the-stairs corpulence. Some notable highlights:

The movie opens with a nightclub massacre as sustained and gratuitous in its squib-soaked carnage as ED-209 unloading on that guy in RoboCop.

Rivaling Denise Richards: nuclear physicist for sheer improbability, Seagal plays a distinguished professor of archaeology (who just won a major award, he'll remind you). His name is Robert Burns, reflecting the poetry in his soul, and he's kind of like Indiana Jones except he does his digging in a floor-length leather duster and little Matrix sunglasses. Also, it's later revealed he earned his PhD while in prison.

Seagal's hair has never been great, but here it gets confusing. He seems to believe he's pulling off a majestic Kurt Russell mullet, but whatever's going on looks more like three different hairpieces hot-glued together at odd angles.

The visual effects vary in quality from some halfway convincing composite shots to scenes like this:

Seagal's mission of vengeance is spurred by the murder of not one, but two women in his life-- his comely academic protégé and his beautiful, devoted wife. Like many of his leading ladies, the actress playing the latter never quite manages to not seem repulsed by his presence.

Made during the height of post-Crouching Tiger wire-fu mania, the movie has some gravity-defying action, but Seagal remains leadenly earthbound (and mostly seated, when possible). His stationary, all-upper-body aikido thing is a total mismatch for wuxia acrobatics, giving him the appearance of a beleaguered dad wrangling toddlers.

In a genuinely good bit, the villains all meet around a big table in their evil conference room à la Austin Powers, and more and more of the chairs appear empty as Seagal murders his way up the food chain.

In its back half, the movie's mix of Hong Kong-inspired action and dreamlike, neon noir atmosphere can be weirdly compelling, like the Max Payne games at their most Lynchian.

The story is narrated, intermittently and sleepily, by a beautiful DEA agent tasked with keeping tabs on Seagal. After clashing for the entire movie, they leave his wife's funeral arm-in-arm, and her voice-over implies they'll be fucking imminently.

Bonus fun fact: In Japan, localized titles for Seagal movies almost always follow the formula: "___ of Silence", but with a word for silence (沈黙) that sounds mysterious and cool. This one was released as Target of Silence, which sure why not.

And finally: among his many talents, Seagal is an ace pilot, leading to an interrogation scene I must insist you watch with the sound on:

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0516 Machu　✨☄️✨ GQuuuuuuX

finally I could watch ☺️

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"I dont want to see anymore."

Happy 20th anniversary to Project zero: The tormented!!

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wow people liked the robin doodles I posted yesterday, so enjoy some of the batgirls <3

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Cass

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heartbreaker

from the delightful game, Sorry We're Closed

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In my restless dreams