#Carpenter Street

[enjoycameralife]

20231004 - Kuching

my first visit back to Kuching since 2018. while the city has expanded and developed in the intervening years, the old part of the city remains as beautiful as ever.

[giffingthingsss]

You're not buying any of this are ya?

[somepikminpostcards]

[agent-troi]

omg the guy in carpenter street was also the insane hologram from voyager rewatches are fun i’m spotting so many different people

[goryhorroor]

horror directors + their most known movie + my favorite

[xosiren]

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[jenjoeys]

siblings in horror, you are so dear to me <3

[addisonbae]

[tobeconsumed]

I doubt anyone will even see this but im saying it here so if you see it you see it

Sabrina Carpenter's new album cover is not setting back feminism. And her new album title isn't misogynist or anti-feminist, it's just kinky. And considering she is a straight woman expressing her sexuality in her art, the idea that she would cater herself to men makes complete sense.

And I'm of the opinion that addison rae and her backup dancers wearing matching lingerie sets and Louboutins for her performance at The Box in Soho was very iconic and very hot. And that, considering it was HER decision, it is outright strange to criticize her for showing skin at her own. show.

Now, I've always been a fan of short skirts and even shorter denim cutoffs, and that has never really been a political statement for me. But considering im a young woman living in America, it is one now and if you tell me my shorts are too short I will go home and make them shorter. This new wave of conservatism and slut-shaming disguised as feminism has got to end.

[evildeadboy]

When i say I'm a whore for horror this is what i mean!

[sshbpodcast]

The Worst Season of All of Star Trek?

by Ames

What’s the worst season of all of Trek? Season 3 of TOS? Season 2 of Picard? All of The Animated Series? Well your hosts at A Star to Steer Her By have a contender. We just finished our watchthrough of season 3 of Enterprise, and if we were mostly unimpressed by the first two seasons, we downright abhorred this one. For a season that’s ultimately one great big 9/11 allegory, it forgets what sci-fi in general – and Star Trek in particular – is meant to do with topical politics: use your imaginative medium to make people ask the Big Questions™.

This season doesn’t do that. 

Instead of pushing themes like what is moral and right during a time of terrorism and war, Enterprise spends most of the time letting Archer unapologetically commit war crimes with the underlying current of “it may not be nice, but it’s necessary.” Well, is it? It’s not until very late in the season that he even feels bad about all the people he manipulates, tortures, or kills. Among some truly, truly cynical episodes, there are still some diamonds, but we’ll let our Tops and Bottoms Lists make those arguments. So dive into the Delphic Expanse with us as we high- and lowlight this season below and listen to our scathing arguments on this week’s podcast episode (blast over to 38:19). America! Fuck Yeah!

[images © CBS/Paramount]

Top Three Episodes

That’s not to say the season is not 100% trash. There’s actually some good stuff in here – in fact, some of the best episodes of Enterprise we’ve seen so far, sprinkled throughout some otherwise drek concepts.

“The Shipment”: Ames One shining light in the early episodes comes in the one-off character Gralik Durr. He’s a Xindi-Arboreal who reminds Archer, as bluntly as he can, that not all Xindi should be considered responsible for the atrocities that are being committed by the Council, which is just what we needed to hear amongst a lot of episodes of Archer racially profiling people for things they have no control over. Thank you, Gralik.

“Proving Ground”: Caitlin You just can’t go wrong with a Shran episode. Jeffrey Combs was the breath of fresh air we pined for in a handful of bleak, exhausting, morally repulsive episodes we’d been saddled with. Is it contrived? Yes. Is there any good reason for Shran to be in the Delphic Expanse? Absolutely not. But what a freaking delight to watch Shran pretend to represent an Andorian Mining Consortium. Full marks; no notes.

“Azati Prime”: Jake It finally feels like something is happening in this season-long plot at about episode 18, when some consequential actions transpire. That’s three-quarters of the way through the season, mind you, but who’s counting? (I am.) We reach the Xindi weapon, Archer gets captured trying to kamikaze the thing, and there’s some really great ship battle. It’s also the first time Archer shows remorse for all the harm he’s caused.

“The Council”: Chris The homestretch of the season has picked up the pace in this whole Xindi War arc, and thank goodness. So much time was spent spinning its wheels that it felt like a success to have so much plot development in the last couple of episodes of the season. And finally (FINALLY), Archer switches this mission to one of diplomacy and collaboration instead of rage and torture. It feels like Star Trek for the first time in a while.

“Countdown”: Chris Same deal here as in “The Council.” We’re close to the end, so things are speeding to the resolution. Plot elements are getting tied up, the Xindi Council is way more fleshed out by now, and every decision has consequences for a change. Dolim and the other Reptilians also up the stakes by taking matters into their own hands, solidifying the realness of the threat of the weapon that was nebulous up to this point.

“Twilight”: Ames, Caitlin, Jake We get a good amount of agreement for this genuinely impressive, well-written, well-acted episode that deviates a little from the Xindi plot while also fitting into the season perfectly. The idea of the interspatial parasites causing Archer to lose his short-term memory is a great sci-fi concept, and the resolution is so clever that we’re fully onboard for a full reset ending that, in less skilled hands, would seem convenient.

“Similitude”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake But the episode that gets the vote of all of your SSHB hosts is a new twist on the “Tuvix” dilemma. Connor Trineer absolutely goes all out as his duplicate, Sim, and we feel devastated at the end when the inevitable occurs. Archer and Phlox are, frankly, monsters to do this to a person; there’s no debate on that. But what we walk away with is a heart-wrenching acting showcase for all the different Trip iterations we meet.

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Bottom Three Episodes

And now, what we’re all here for: shitting on all the bad things from this morally reprehensible season. From all the war crimes, to the racial profiling, to the missed opportunities and even more recycled shots, this season just plain has so many low points.

“Doctor’s Orders”: Jake Like how “E²” is just DS9’s “Children of Time” but with Enterprise paint (and not as good), this episode is just Voyager’s “One” but with Enterprise paint (and also not as good). If you’re going to entirely rehash a story your franchise has already done, at least change it up a little. Watching Phlox and T’Pol wander around while everyone else is put under just makes you think, “Dang, Jeri Ryan did this way better.”

“Chosen Realm”: Caitlin Every so often, Star Trek tries to make a point about religion and faith as compared to the science and logic of its main characters, and this is one of those times it bungles it. Like with Voyager’s “Sacred Ground,” this one doesn’t quite make the argument it thinks it’s making. And then it manages to somehow make a joke of all of it by having the religious factions be at war over something purely trivial. Blah.

“Rajiin”: Caitlin We could have called a mile away that Rajiin was up to no good and saving her was going to be a mistake. And it’s not like we were really missing watching T’Pol getting sexually assaulted all the time like in “Fusion” – we really didn’t need yet another oversexed scene of her getting pawed at by some villain or other. Everything was just predictable, boring, and repetitive.

“Carpenter Street”: Jake As if we haven’t had enough mind-boggling time travel from the Temporal Cold War arc, Daniels has to drop by and stir up shit again. There’s just something dissatisfying about the Detroit plot. The Reptilians’ need for all the blood types is just contrived. Bringing T’Pol of all people is just begging for Vulcan shenanigans. The whole thing should be Daniels’s problem and he refuses to do jack about it!

“North Star”: Ames As an episode that’s “Spectre of the Gun” meets “The Paradise Syndrome,” this one probably belonged in The Original Series. A Cowboys-and-Indians story feels entirely out of place in the current era of Trek, and that’s all the more bolstered by the fact that we’re in the middle of the Xindi arc and take a week off to dress up in spurs and ride horseys. The anti-racist message also seems just too easy, especially considering how racist Archer is being the rest of this season.

“Damage”: Chris Archer makes a lot of deplorable decisions this season. From ordering the Sim clone made in “Similitude,” to memory-wiping Degra in “Strategem,” to torturing that Osaarian pirate from “Anomaly,” to treating the first Xindi we meet in “The Xindi” like trash, he’s a bad captain. But stealing from the Illyrians might take the cake because these people were innocent and Archer acts like it was necessary. Oh, and making T’Pol a junkie was a weird writing choice.

“Hatchery”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris For once Archer is in the right in this episode! Purely incidentally, he’s advocating for treating the Xindi-Insectoid babies like people and not letting them die, and the rest of the crew mutinies because he’s not committing enough war crimes. But the episode undoes what could have been a moral lesson by having Archer’s mind be compromised, and it makes me throw things because they were this close, people!

“Harbinger”: Ames, Chris, Jake When the constant sexualizing of T’Pol is actually the highlight of your episode, you know you’ve done fucked up. First, we’ve got Reed being a Big Baby™ about Major Hayes being insubordinate – something that comes entirely out of left field. But even worse than that is Archer finding a being in some anomaly and deciding to torture him. We’ve never even met his kind before and his first impulse is to treat him like the enemy with absolutely no proof. God, I hate this season.

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Purportedly season four actually starts to pick up, so what do you all think? Was this the lowest of the low? Is it all [relatively] uphill from here? Find out as we continue to watch through Enterprise on SoundCloud (or wherever you podcast). Let us know your least favorite season of Trek overall over on Facebook and Twitter, and maybe commit a couple fewer war crimes than Archer. Just a couple.

[cultmoodymovies]

Horror Starter Pack - 1980's Edition -

For years I've been asked "What horror movies do you recommend?" or "Where do I start?". Here are my suggestions of movies that are not just the best horror films but I also feel represent the decade.

1. The Evil Dead (1981) Director: Sam Raimi 2. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) Director: John Carpenter 3. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Director: Wes Craven 4. Videodrome (1983) Director: David Cronenberg 5. The Lost Boys (1987) Director: Joel Schumacher 6. The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Director: Dan O'Bannon 7. The Shining (1980) Director: Stanley Kubrick 8. Re-Animator (1985) Director: Stuart Gordon 9. Phenomena (1985) Director: Dario Argento 10. The Toxic Avenger (1984) Director: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Complete Lists Here: https://www.tumblr.com/cultmoodymovies/782866690427977728/horror-movie-starter-packs-complete-lists?source=share

[thefaintingbee]

Sorry, but if an entire movement can be derailed by a single person and an album cover, maybe the movement wasn't that strong to begin with.

Art can make you uncomfortable, that happens. We all have different interpretations of things and we all have our own opinions. But to sit there and say that Sabrina Carpenter set an entire movement back by 50 years just because she got on her hands and knees? That's a slap in the face to every feminist that came before you, full fucking stop. View the art however you want, view Sabrina Carpenter however you want, but quit acting like feminism is fragile enough to be destroyed overnight. If you're actually worried about women's rights, then focus on your lawmakers, not the 26-year-old you have a parasocial relationship with.

[johnny-dynamo]

Artist Spotlight: KeverCaser

[needforserotonin]

Friday 13th Dir. Sean Cunningham (1980)

The Shining Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1980)

Halloween Dir. John Carpenter (1978)

Nightmare on Elm Street Dir. Wes Craven (1984)

[jackiesjersey2-0]

dont get sentimental, it always ends up drivel.

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