#WASP-39

[thetrexartist]

When Waspinator was still small enough, he'd escape the sparkling pen that the adult bots had made for sparklings without creators.

That and grub waspinator coming to his fleshy creator to snuggle. At some point, cody just straight up adopts him. Who could say no to that face?

[spacenutspod]

In today's e[isode, we set sail through the cosmic seas beginning with the Hubble Space Telescope's 19-year odyssey, cataloging a flurry of elusive asteroids in a monumental cosmic census. Our journey takes a magnetic turn as we uncover how stellar magnetic fields are reshaping our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres, with a spotlight on the distant world of WASP 39 b. We then descend upon the mysterious ice of Ceres, where young, dynamic ice layers defy our expectations of these shadowy craters. Our quest for extraterrestrial life takes an unexpected twist with the potential of purple bacteria, offering a new palette in the search for life beyond Earth. For our grand finale, we soar over Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, with NASA's Juno mission revealing its fiery heart and enigmatic surface features like never before. Join us as we navigate these cosmic revelations, unraveling the secrets of the universe piece by piece. --- **Featured Topics:** 1. **Hubble's Cosmic Census:** A 19-year journey through Hubble's archives uncovers over 1700 asteroid trails, enriching our understanding of the solar system. 2. **Stellar Magnetic Fields:** Exploring the magnetic influence on exoplanet atmospheres and its impact on our interpretations of distant worlds like WASP 39 b. 3. **Ceres' Ice Mysteries:** Delving into the surprising youthfulness of ice deposits on Ceres, challenging our perceptions of water in the asteroid belt. 4. **The Color Purple in Astrobiology:** Considering purple bacteria as a potential key to detecting alien life, expanding our search beyond Earth's greenery. 5. **Juno's Insights on Io:** An exhilarating close-up look at Io's volcanic activity and surface features, thanks to NASA's Juno mission flybys. --- **Additional Information:** Continue your cosmic journey with us at astronomydaily.io, where you can relive past episodes, stay updated with our space news feed, and subscribe to our free daily newsletter. Engage with fellow space enthusiasts and share your thoughts by leaving us a message. Keep the conversation going on X (formerly Twitter) by following us at @AstroDailypod. Your support and curiosity drive our voyage through the stars—until next time, this is Charlie, reminding you to keep looking up. --- **Host Sign-off:** Charlie: As we conclude today's journey across the universe, I'm Charlie, thanking you for joining us on Astronomy Daily - The Podcast. Keep your eyes to the skies and your wonder alight, as there's always more to uncover in the vastness of space. Visit astronomydaily.io for more, and until our next cosmic encounter, clear skies and stellar dreams to all.

[addicted2wasps]

39 of 48. Even though I have already drawn a Pompilid, I was made aware of this species named Herbstellus chango, and I thought it was way too cool to leave out. It’s native to Chile and it’s coloured like a reverse Chrysis ignita. Definitely my favourite spider wasp as of yet.

[liquid-bonhomme]

When Lily said to "name 50 villians" who are "sympathetic," that was too easy. But now that we've graduated to Lily's bullshit moving of the goal post . . . Well, being annoying is one of my special interests, so.

Naming 50 villians who, "have a point, successfully navigate still being a villian, and are well written."

(Extra challenge: trying not to repeat any of the ones Crim and Ant have already named. Sorry if I repeat one by accident.)

1. Frank, The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks

2. Brandy Alexander, Invisible Monsters by Chunk Palahniuk

3. AM, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Halan Ellison

4. Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman

5. Shylock, The Merchant of Venace

6. Beloved, Beloved by Toni Morrison

7. The Cenobites, The Hell Bound Heart, Hellraiser (1987), Hellraiser 2, Hellraiser (2022)

8. Starro, The Suicide Squad

9. Can't name this character without spoilers for Invincible, but the character who ends up with their brain in a jar at the end, Invincible (comic)

10. Goff, Peacemaker

11. Rorschach, Watchman (comic)

12. Ozymandias, Watchman (comic)

13. The Comedian, Watchman (comic)

14. Can't name this character again because spoilers, but the last person Hughie fights, The Boys (comic)

15. Mr. Freeze, Batman (comic and animated series)

16. Christiane, Eyes Without a Face

17. Ryu, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

18. Dong-jin, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

19. Lee Woo-jin, Old Boy (2003)

20. Lee Geum-ja, Lady Vengance

21. Curtis Everett, Snowpiercer (film)

22. The Assassin, Mad God

23. "Su-yeon/Eun-joo", A Tale of Two Sisters

24. "Pyramid Head", Silent Hill 2

25. Alessa, Silent Hill 1

26. Claudia Wolf, Silent Hill 3

27. Lady Hideko, The Handmaiden

28. Jennifer, Jennifer's Body

29. Robert Neville, I Am Legend by Richard Matherson

30. The Machines, The Inevitable Conflict by Isaac Asimov

31. Master, Reason by Isaac Asimov

32. Hanna, Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

33. The Artist, Mermaid in a Manhole

34. Red Death, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

35. Father Paul, Midnight Mass

36. Death, Fall of the House of Usher

37. Death, The Seventh Seal

38. Hell, No Exit

39. Winslow Leach, Phantom of the Paradise

40. May, May

41. Jean Jacket, Nope

42. Hayley, Hard Candy

43. Red, Us

44. Violet Hubbard, Penance by Eliza Clark

45. Charles Kinbote, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nobokov

46. You, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

47. Tess Clark, Haunted by Chunk Palahniuk

48. "Oba Yozo", No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

49. Asami, Audition (Novel and film)

50. Arsriel, His Dark Material by Philip Pullman.

A few of these are malicious compliance-- but Lily made the rules, not me. I made sure to scatter them in the list, so, good luck to her picking them out considering she only watches cartoons, lol.

[ashcoveredtraveler]

So a couple weeks ago I bought Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America which had many illustrations of bugs. This weekend I decided to sketch some of them.

The names and pages of the bugs drawn:

Bush Katydid, pg.27

European Earwig, pg.34

Rove Beetle, pg.61

Back Swimmer, pg.39

Io Moth, pg.87

Spider Wasp, pg.115

[solradguy]

in the anime opening around 0:34 - 0:39 they flash a bunch of stuff while unika is balled up, lots of test tubes and blood cells and xray shots but one of the frames looks like a child, i cant decided whether its baby unika or baby sin. there also seems to be a frame of someone with long flowing hair :0 lotsa cool stuff in those frames tbqh

Yeah!! That part of the OP is really interesting. Since Unika hates Gears, I wonder if it's supposed to be her seeing her family being killed by them? The frame right before that sequence is a closeup of her eye, so I definitely think it's related to her somehow, even if it ends up not being a flashback/memory of her's

The hair shape on the kid silhouette is the same as Unika's too

Then the frames immediately afterwards are probably Gears. The first one looks like a big giant mouth Leopaldon-style, while the other has this like creepy bobbit worm thing going on

Bobbit worm 👆

This sequence ends with a closeup of Unika's eye too, before black lightning animates the transition to a Sin segment. Idk how Sin's going to tie into it, but Sin could befriend a pissed off wasp so he's probably at least going to try his best to befriend Unika lol

I'm so excited to see what this all ends up meaning. It feels like it's going to borrow heavily from Lightning the Argent and the Gear tech bits from Begin. Nerville Hammer looking suspiciously like Sebass and the author for both LtA and Dual Rulers being Kaiho Norimitsu has me like mmmm 👀👀👀 what does it meaaaannnn.....

[sarcasticnerdfan]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below.

I put in bold the titles I’ve read. Italics for currently reading.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

My total (April 6, 2025): 10 READ

(13 read or currently in progress)

I have many of these on my bookshelf waiting for me...Maybe I should get on that.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a key target for planet formation studies.

The observations provide strong evidence that the system's four giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn, by slowly building solid cores. They also confirm Webb can do more than infer atmospheric composition from starlight measurements—it can directly analyze the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres.

"By spotting these strong carbon dioxide features, we have shown there is a sizable fraction of heavier elements, such as carbon, oxygen, and iron, in these planets' atmospheres. Given what we know about the star they orbit, that likely indicates they formed via core accretion, which for planets that we can directly see is an exciting conclusion," said William Balmer, a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist who led the work.

An analysis of the observations, which also included a system 96 light-years away called 51 Eridani, appears in The Astrophysical Journal.

HR 8799 is a young system about 30 million years old, a fraction of our solar system's 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, HR 8799 planets emit large amounts of infrared light that give scientists valuable data on how their formation compares to that of stars or brown dwarfs.

Giant planets can take shape in two ways: by slowly building solid cores that attract gas, like our solar system, or by rapidly collapsing from a young star's cooling disk into massive objects. Knowing which model is more common can give scientists clues to distinguish between the types of planets they find in other systems.

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence," Balmer said. "We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours. From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is—or how normal."

Very few exoplanets have been directly imaged, as distant planets are many thousands of times fainter than their stars. By capturing direct images at specific wavelengths only accessible with the Webb, the team is paving the way for more detailed observations to determine whether the objects they see orbiting other stars are truly giant planets or objects such as brown dwarfs, which form like stars but don't accumulate enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion.

"We have other lines of evidence that hint at these four HR 8799 planets forming using this bottom-up approach" said Laurent Pueyo, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute who co-led the work.

"How common is this for long period planets we can directly image? We don't know yet, but we're proposing more Webb observations, inspired by our carbon dioxide diagnostics, to answer that question."

The achievement was made possible by Webb's coronagraphs, which block light from bright stars as happens in a solar eclipse to reveal otherwise hidden worlds. This allowed the team to look for infrared light in wavelengths that reveal specific gases and other atmospheric details.

Targeting the 3-5 micrometer wavelength range, the team found that the four HR 8799 planets contain more heavy elements than previously thought, another hint that they formed in the same way as our solar system's gas giants.

The observations also revealed the first-ever detection of the innermost planet, HR 8799 e, at a wavelength of 4.6 micrometers, and 51 Eridani b at 4.1 micrometers, showcasing Webb's sensitivity in observing faint planets close to bright stars.

In 2022, one of Webb's key observation techniques indirectly detected carbon dioxide in another exoplanet, called WASP-39 b, by tracking how its atmosphere altered starlight when it passed in front of its star.

"This is what scientists have been doing for transiting planets or isolated brown dwarfs since the launch of JWST," Pueyo said.

Rémi Soummer, who directs the Optics Laboratory at the Space Telescope Science Institute and previously led Webb's coronagraph operations, added, "We knew JWST could measure colors of the outer planets in directly imaged systems. We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets.

"Now the results are in, and we can do interesting science with it."

The team hopes to use Webb's coronagraphs to analyze more giant planets and compare their composition to theoretical models.

"These giant planets have pretty big implications," Balmer said.

"If you have these huge planets acting like bowling balls running through your solar system, they can either really disrupt, protect, or do a little bit of both to planets like ours, so understanding more about their formation is a crucial step to understanding the formation, survival, and habitability of Earth-like planets in the future."

TOP IMAGE: The clearest look in the infrared yet at the iconic multi-planet system HR 8799. Colors are applied to filters from Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). A star symbol marks the location of the host star HR 8799, whose light has been blocked by the coronagraph. In this image, the color blue is assigned to 4.1 micron light, green to 4.3 micron light, and red to the 4.6 micron light. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI)

LOWER IMAGE: Webb captured this image of Eridani 51 b, a cool, young exoplanet that orbits 11 billion miles from its star. This image includes filters representing 4.1-micron light as red. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI)

[successionbracket]

Tumblr's Rankings of every Succession Episode

1. This is Not For Tears (2.10) 2. All the Bells Say (3.09) 3. Connor’s Wedding (4.03) 4. Nobody is Ever Missing (1.10) 5. Safe Room (2.04) 6. Too Much Birthday (3.07) 7. Tern Haven (2.05) 8. Which Side Are You On? (1.06) 9. Church and State (4.09) 10. With Open Eyes (4.10) 11. Hunting (2.03) 12. DC (2.09) 13. Chiantishire (3.08) 14. Retired Janitors of Idaho (3.05) 15. Shit Show At The Fuck Factory (1.02) 16. Argestes (2.06) 17. Austerlitz (1.07) 18. The Summer Palace (2.01) 19. Prague (1.08) 20. Honeymoon States (4.04) 21. Secession (3.01) 22. Dundee (2.08) 23. Sad Sack Wasp Trap (1.04) 24. America Decides (4.08) 25. Pre-Nuptial (1.09) 26. Return (2.07) 27. Lifeboats (1.03) 28. What It Takes (3.08) 29. Vaulter (2.02) 30. I Went To Market (1.05) 31. The Disruption (3.03) 32. Living+ (4.06) 33. Tailgate Party (4.07) 34. Mass in Time of War (3.02) 35. Celebration (1.01) 36. Kill List (4.05) 37. Rehearsal (4.02) 38. The Munsters (4.01) 39. Lion in the Meadow (3.04)

[frankendykes-monster]

Countdown to Halloween 2024 ranked

54. The Willies (1990)

53. Hell High (1987)

52. Face of The Screaming Werewolf (1964)

51. Terrifier (2016)

50. The Last Halloween (1991)

49. Cathy's Curse (1977)

48. The Last Shark (1981)

47. Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire (2024)

46. Creepozoids (1987)

45. The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

44. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)

43. Man Beast (1956)

42. Tourist Trap (1979)

41. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)

40. Fiend (1980)

39. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

38. Devil Girl From Mars (1954)

37. Halloween Hall o' Fame (1977)

36. Nightmare (1981)

35. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

34. Peeping Tom (1960)

33. Violent Shit (1989)

32. Invaders From Mars (1986)

31. Eggshells (1969)

30. Night of The Ghouls (1959)

29. Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)

28. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

27. The Colossus of New York (1958)

26. The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

25. Night of The Living Doo (2001)

24. Scooby-Doo! and The Reluctant Werewolf (1988)

23. The Great Bear Scare (1983)

22. The Wasp Woman (1995)

21. The Cyclops (1957)

20. Frankenstein and The Monster from Hell (1974)

19. The Tingler (1959)

18. The Boogey Man (1980)

17. The Dragon Lives Again (1977)

16. Quatermass and The Pit (1967)

15. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

14. Mad Love (1935)

13. The Alien Factor (1978)

12. The Walking Dead (1935)

11. Dr. Caligari (1989)

10. The Deadly Spawn (1983)

9. Invaders From Mars (1953)

8. Alucarda (1977)

7. Uzumaki (2024)

6. Sole Survivor (1984)

5. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

4. Shock Waves (1977)

3. Frankenhooker (1990)

2. Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)

1. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

What a productive year. October lasts all of 30 seconds which is why I have to start watching these in July if I want to make any decent headway (31 films is not enough). I desperately tried to make this a year of "have not seens" after last year's top spots being flooded with films I already loved; we mostly did it, mostly. Another top heavy year with relatively few abysmal entries, let's get started.

The Willies is the grand shitshow for this year. It feels like it's an evolutionary precursor to something like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of The Dark?, but it mostly plays to gross out rather than scares. I don't normally care for anthology horror films to begin so to start off a film with brief segments like a woman eating a deep fried rat or a little white dog being microwave exploded and then doing extended stories on monsters hiding in the school bathroom does not do it for me. The most minimal points possible for some decent lighting and special effects but they are not enough by any means to make this worth watching. Stay away.

Onto the 1980's horror: Hell High is what happens when a film crew asks "what if we put a woman into a situation and didn't stop". I want to call it misogynistic torture porn, but I don't want to devalue that phrase for when I use it for a film later on here, but suffice to say a woman is tortured. Emotionally. For very little reason. Universal was right to block The Last Shark from US theatrical distribution. Not because it's a very blatant Jaws ripoff and they wanted to protect their copyright, but because it's abysmal and nobody should have to pay money to see this. I think the stock footage of sharks juxtaposed with the unmoving props between shots is funny, and some of the soundtrack elevates the experience, like the high shrill drones when the shark attacks a helicopter. Creepozoids is an odd one because 1987 was a bit late for a Mad Max/Escape from New York/Alien knockoff but also too early for some Full Moon tier/softcore porn adjacent 1990's production, so it loses out on both fronts. Fiend I'm struggling to even recall, I feel like Don Dohler had one movie in him (see: his plethora of alien invasion films) and him trying to branch out did him no favors. Nightmare is one I want to enjoy because it's beautifully shot but I feel like I've seen one too many slasher adjacent films at this point that include plot points like the killer having a troubled relationship with his mother or him moonlighting as a regular guy (still better than Pieces mind you). Same with Violent Shit. I feel like my tastes are pretty attuned to films that are just gore effects showcases but this one doesn't have any zany concepts to justify or compliment it, so it just falls flat.

The Boogey Man belongs to that tirade of Halloween knockoffs that flooded theaters up till about 1984 or so, but it puts in some extra effort like having a ghost be the main antagonist and a symbolic interest in mirrors, which is much more than could be asked of films like Terror Train which came out the same year. Dr. Caligari is the obligatory "this is what Tim Burton thinks he's doing" film of this year; its sets and its performances are perfectly otherworldly to a humorous degree. It's something of a quasi-sequel to the 1920 film but its relationship with logic is attuned to such a frequency that it's not a hindrance. Very hard to objectively quantify, you're either in the target audience or you aren't, so of all films here take its tier placement the least seriously. The Deadly Spawn is such a gloriously gross film. The house it's shot in isn't supposed to be disgusting on purpose, it's just one of those century's old buildings where I feel like I'd revulse if I had to touch any surface, and that's before fleshy alien monsters break in and start shredding people to bits. Sole Survivor is one of those magical "missing link" horror films, we've finally found what comes between Carnival of Souls and Final Destination. The actual scares in this film are incredibly minimal as it prioritizes atmosphere that balances between comfort and unease, something incredibly rare for films of virtually any genre. Don't go in expecting ghosts and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Taking a brief-ish detour to the 1960's, Face of The Screaming Werewolf is one of those films I'm more angry at than anything because it's one of those films that's just the combined stray footage of multiple previous films. Rare for these to be produced in the western market (most of the examples I think of are from (south)east Asia) but it's infuriating nonetheless to see something only to discover it's a worse version of multiple better things you could be seeing. Peeping Tom is our "most overrated" entry winner, I don't know why so many people applaud this one, I feel like barely anything of substance happens to such a degree that any ounce of suspense you could draw from this just disappears, and what a shame with the concept at play here that feels as if it would take another decade for everyone else to catch up. Eggshells is the directorial debut of Tobe Hooper and while cohesive narrative is virtually nonexistent here, the amount of experimental editing keeps this going throughout the entire runtime, you can definitely see where The Texas Chainsaw Massacre came from down the line. I feel like I'm somewhat disappointed with Quatermass and The Pit (not sure what "The Pit" refers to now that I think of it) mostly becasue the first two Quatermass films are among the best 1950's science fiction films. All three are theatrical remakes of television mini-series and that's most felt here with how so much of the film takes place in the single location of an unearthed Martian ship in the heart of London. I do love that we have a science fiction film positing that humans are partly the genetic ancestors of aliens prior to people taking that seriously with books like Chariot of The Gods. The Brain That Wouldn't Die is magical, sometimes those oft hated 1950's/1960's science fiction films have something to give back to the rest of us. Here it's a man so obsessed with his own work that he sees his wife's death as an opportunity to try and kill other women so that he can use their bodies as grounds to bring her back. Which sounds like something else I watched...

...said film being Frankenhooker, which has largely the same plot but now functions as a dark comedy. God. I hate so much that the capitalist enclosure on the production and distribution of film prevented us from getting so much more from Frank Henenlotter. The man is one of the best to ever direct horror, and anyone who thinks this film or any of his other work are "bad movies" just flat out do not know what they're talking about. I think compared to Basket Case and Brain Damage however, Frankenhooker is the one that "keeps giving". You think you've seen everything the film has to offer and then something like a hotel room full of women combusts as they succumb to the effects of exploding crack or Elizabeth (the titular character) has her head punched back and starts spewing smoke and electricity everywhere. Film is a magical medium of art.

Terrifier is what I held onto "misogynistic torture porn" for. No narrative, no character work, just opportunities to show Art the Clown dismember and murder women in revolting ways. It's one of those films that vindicates everyone that doesn't like this genre and makes me wonder what I'm doing sitting side by side with people that like this shit. I think Art cutting off a woman's breasts and scalp and attaching them to his nude body to disguise himself as another prior female victim of his is when my mouth went agape and audibly asked what the fuck am I watching, cannot stress enough how much it takes to get that reaction out of me. There's an upfront showcase that Terrifier knows that it's trash and revels in it, I mean there's an early scene where we see Art has spelled out his name in his own shit, and I'm not sure how to interpret that other than I feel like I might be landing in a Duchamp's Urinal trap. For reasons that allude even me I am still eyeing the prospect of watching both sequels.

I think my overall reaction to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is one of "whatever". A passably bad film is a definite improvement from the abomination that was Godzilla vs. Kong but it's admittedly easy to rise up when you start from the bottom. Adam Wingard more or less sucked all the joy I could muster out of the Monsterverse, I truly do not care anymore. If anything can be gleaned from this film it's that this is a film made to reconfirm people's existing biases of "I hate the boring human scenes, I'm only watching this for the monsters." Kong is the best actor in this film because the special effects team have to have him actually emote in response to a given situation, which is more than could be asked of anyone actually on the set, apparently. It's a miracle that this came out in the shadow of Godzilla Minus One than on its own terms.

The glut of 1950's science fiction films are a perennial staple of the Halloween countdown but they don't have a huge showing this year. Man Beast is one I'm going to confuse with all the other yeti movies of the decade though having a main antagonist that's actually a human hybrid gets it some points for originality. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll infuriates me because women who become monsters in film never get to be "hideous" and "scary" like their male counterparts, I'm throwing tomatoes at this one. Devil Girl From Mars is mostly memorable for having a giant clunky robot a la Gort, but the actual titular antagonist doesn't "serve cunt" enough to warrant interest, she should have taken notes from The Astounding She-Monster. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an honorable mention because it's a feature-length pastiche of the z-grade films of this era. I don't think it's particularly funny and I kind of wish they lampooned a "good" film of this type rather than make something that fits in line with the middling genre efforts. Night of The Ghouls is the last horror film directed by Ed Wood and I feel like I enjoy it slightly more than Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's far more competent in producing that lulling insomniac reaction than Wood's prior efforts but I still don't "get" the attention his work consistently gets. The Strange World of Planet X gets a special pass from me just because the finale has a bunch of giant bugs attacking stuff. Moving on.

The Colossus of New York is an oddball modern Frankenstein of sorts with a guy being transformed into a giant robot and struggling to maintain some attachment to his former life. It doesn't always work but once again giant clunky robots are giant clunky robots. I'm something of a Bert I. Gordon apologist so something like The Cyclops is going to hit harder for me than it does for most people. I just like people wandering around Bronson Cave and poor matte shots of giant animals moving in and out of frame, okay? The Tingler was the oddest revisit I've had in a while. I don't think I fully "get" William Castle's approach to film but what stuck out to me is how this one takes place in largely two locations and how Vincent Price's character is kind of the antagonist, experimenting on animals, himself, and other people (resulting in a murder) to get at the Tingler. Much like in House on Haunted Hill I'm not wholly sure how some of the spooky things in this film actually work and I don't think I'm meant to, adding to the bizarre nature of the entire series of affairs here.

Invaders From Mars...oh yes. One of the absolute best 1950's science fiction films is also the most lyrical and dreamlike. It reads at times like a Soviet parody of an American child's story would be like; a boy sees every institution designed to protect him as a child and as an American turn against him on account of some nefarious foreign invader, so his only course of action is to get the US military involved. It plays out so well because it's a POV piece from a young boy, which eases over any leaps in logic both in terms of form and content of this film. Which is more than can be said of the remake, part of the diminishing returns of Tobe Hooper's then contract with Cannon. The film largely follows the same plot structure but decenters the frame through which we see it unfold giving it a "the military is legit" vibe. It also is just a bit more mean-spirited in ways that are designed to taunt the audience versus the original film's more hardened edge to it. I think a great summation of the difference between the two is that the 1953 film had Martian bodyguards that are clearly guys in fuzzy green pajama suits, but they're more threatening than the ones in the 1986 film which are giant quadruped Stan Winston monsters. I digress. Had this come out 20 years later it would be classified as part of the wave of "why are they remaking everything?"

Speaking of remakes, briefly want to mention the 1995 Wasp Woman. It's The Wasp Woman for the 1990's, now with explosions and softcore sex scenes. I can't wholly defend the original 1959 film despite my affinity for it, so let's just say this one is of comparable quality.

The 1930's are a delightful treasure trove for horror but sadly we only have two up for offer. Mad Love makes me curious as to how other adaptations of The Hands of Orlac handle the material; I was convinced a guy got his head surgically reattached and with artificial hands to boot. Always good to see Colin Clive and Peter Lorre. The Walking Dead feels like a dry run for what Boris Karloff would do later that decade in the much better The Man They Could Not Hang, just with him as the victim here and not the mastermind. Truly some of his best work as an actor as he has to float through the world not being allowed to live or die, that shit sticks with you.

We watched a scant few Halloween specials proper, I always feel like I want to watch every Halloween special possible but sometimes the enthusiasm leaves me. The Last Halloween is trash, but that's on me for thinking something made for very small children would appeal to me as an adult. It crams far too much into its brief 22 minute runtime, so the only thing that manages to escape into the zone of interest is that the CGI aliens are actually very well done for a 1991 television production, had this been all about them (voiced by Hanna Barbara stalwarts such as Frank Welker and Don Messick, along with Paul Williams), this would have been far more tolerable. Halloween Hall o' Fame is the first of apparently several Disney television specials that repackaged their theatrical shorts inside a live-action framing device. It's quaint but this format would live and die by the quality of the shorts included; I'm not intimately familiar with Disney's back catalogue solely because they've barely released anything on home media but I absolutely adore the one where Pluto goes to Hell and is put in a kangaroo court with cats on the jury. I feel like the novelty of The Scooby-Doo Project and Night of The Living Doo have carried them along further than their actual quality have, stray artifacts from when Warner Bros was briefly testing to see if Scooby could be an adult property now, doomed to the same fate as Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. The latter of these two specials made me come to terms with the fact that David Cross was "a big deal" at some point. The Great Bear Scare is the winner here. How could you not like an animated special where bears have to stand up and be brave against an oncoming horde of Halloween monsters? What makes this an oddity (sort of an obligation for me and Halloween specials) is that this is animated 100% without in-betweens, so every character in every scene cross-dissolves in real time between their keyframes. Depending on who you are it could be ridiculously distracting or make you step back and appreciate how hard animation is.

Clearing out our remaining animated showings, I felt like I would really get back into Scooby-Doo and The Reluctant Werewolf. In the mid-late 2000's when Cartoon Network was desperately trying to excise showing anything from their backlogs, this is one of those films that was on repeat constantly as midday viewings especially over summer. It's just so far removed from what Scooby-Doo "proper" is that it's an enigma, I go to bat to defend each of the "red shirt Shaggy" movies but this is brain melting at times, there is no mystery to solve, monsters are real, Fred/Daphne/Velma are completely absent, half the film is dedicated to a drag race, it goes on and on and on that I feel numb after a bit. Uzumaki...it's good. I feel like the fact that this was in production hell for five years following the first trailer release made me stop caring so all the shenanigans regarding the reaction to the animation dropping off (the production team got screwed over, how the fuck do studios not have the money for FOUR EPISODES, David Zlasv strikes again) brushed off of me. Regardless of that I think the actual pacing would have restricted this given how much sequential material from the manga now has to occur concurrently. It gets by solely because it's Uzumaki and as such it channels such a foreboding sense of dread and despair that is unreal. This more than anything is the true epitome of cosmic horror because there is no "source" or "identity" behind the threat that is warping reality around you, there is nothing to oppose and be defiant against, which was true of the manga and it remains true here. Bravo.

The 1970's prove to be another sporadic decade for horror. Cathy's Curse proves that no matter how good technical effects are, do not watch any Carrie knockoffs. Blah. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks...you took a movie where a Frankenstein monster fights a caveman and made it boring, congratulations. In the interim between 2021's viewing of Curse of Frankenstein and now, I've made the effort to watch the entirety of the Hammer Frankenstein series. They make for a brilliant reinterpretation of the source material with Frankenstein effectively being antagonist: he kills consistently for his experiments, which often time warp and alter people's identities along with their bodies. The "holy triumvirate" of the series as referred to by me would be The Revenge of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Created Woman, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, all for showcasing new stuff that can be done with the character and any prior influences such as the Universal films being absent. Then comes The Horror of Frankenstein, a soft remake of Curse of Frankenstein, with Terence Fischer and Peter Cushing both absent. It's a dry and tedious affair that just rehashes what Curse already did, just now with a black comedic angle and no real consequences for Frankenstein himself. It's easily the worst of the series and why I'm glad Hammer backtracked for Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell. This is probably the first instance in film history where a sequel has consciously ignored a preceding remake, and while it's not wholly original either, it's comfort food for fans of this series, and now employs a darker more claustrophobic setting in an ~insane asylum~. Not the best ending for the series, but Hammer, along with Toho and Ray Harryhausen's efforts with Columbia, sort of represented the "old" styles of horror that were pretty quickly being replaced as the decade went on. This film specifically came out the same year as the likes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it was a transitional period where what horror once was was cast away. Still not sure why the monster in this film looks like a Neanderthal man but that's just me.

Tourist Trap desperately tries to be one part Psycho and one part Texas Chainsaw, and it admittedly starts off with a nice hook of animatronic puppets being the main focus of the film, but it falls through the cracks and just becomes another random 1970's horror film. Vampyros Lesbos makes me realize that my infatuation with Zombi 3 last year did not mean I'm suddenly infatuated with Lucio Fulci's overall filmography, exceptions are not the rule. Come to think I don't think I've seen a single lesbian vampire film that I'm smitten with, how do you make this boring and not sexy at all, fuck you. Scream, Blacula, Scream is the obligatory Blacula cash-in sequel, nothing worthwhile to see here and none of the charm and significance of the first film is carried forward here, sigh. "DEDICATED TO THE MILLIONS THAT LOVE BRUCE LEE," The Dragon Lives Again is one of the plethora of films featuring Lee impersonators following his death, showing Lee in Hell as he has to find a way back to Earth while also fighting off The Godfather, Dracula, The Man with No Name, Emanuele, Zatoichi, and James Bond while allying himself with Popeye and Dr. Who. No I am not making any of this up, yes, this film was made with very little money so it sounds far more interesting than it actually ends up being, but it's a cute film, I can't be mad at a film made for me, nor can a movie showing Popeye eat spinach to fight mummies or Bruce Lee knocking out Dracula with his "third leg" be something you don't go out of your way to watch.

The Alien Factor is Don Dohler's first and best film. I love the fact that a dozen people made a small scale alien invasion/slasher film in their backyards with actually solid special effects for something that was probably made on the weekends. You can't hate this film, it's made from pure love for what was already decades old genre material. Had some of the script and acting been tightened up this could have become one of the more widely recognized independent films of the decade. Oh...Alucarda. I hate when they make a lesbian devil worshiper film between girls coming to terms with theirs sexual orientation and then they aren't the heroes of the story. We've come a long way since then.

Given that the Eggers film is still a few months out, I'd say Nosferatu the Vampyre is my preferred interpretation of the story (not my favorite Dracula adaptation overall mind you). Let me say that I think remaking Nosferatu is ridiculous solely because you're just doing Dracula, again, just with some stylistic details brought on from a specific prior Dracula. But this film goes all out. It's one of those times where I'm reminded of why slowly paced films with shots that last minutes at a time are so great. It relies very little on narrative (the extent/nature of Dracula's power of the geographic barriers between Wismar and Transylvania go unexplained) but you get so thoroughly sucked into the setting and the characters that you can't complain. This has undeniably the best portrayal of Mina in any Dracula film, she's effectively the protagonist by the second half and each of her encounters with Dracula are on her terms, he's effectively powerless against her even if she ensures they both die in the end. Also, rats. So many rats. Everywhere. The plague is in town.

Shock Waves is just great 1970's horror. Shoot on location, hold the camera in hand the entire time, do it cheap, have a dreamy distant narrator, and make it grisly. I do find the concept of Nazis engineering platoons of super soldiers and we only seeing just the one in this film is probably the scariest thing about it, it invites you to think about what else is happening out of sight. My favorite first watch of the year.

1978's Invasion of The Body Snatchers is also a phenomenal remake. This one is difficult for me to talk about because it just pushes all my buttons, I felt like I wanted to cry throughout the duration of this viewing, it is an incredibly mean film. Someone you know just one day turns on you, and then everyone else follows suit. You think you know your surroundings and your city but everything is flipped upside down and you can't even describe why. From the very start when you see the premature pods land on Earth it's made immediately clear that no one is making it out of here, it was too late as soon as it started.

But there can only be one #1, and this year it's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Another instance of "nothing is going to beat this" as soon as I rewatched it. I feel like I'm alone in considering this one of the absolute best in the series, I feel like between the espionage and exploration and blood and laser fights that this is just one of the films that reminds you of why we make and why we watch movies, you get to have some semblance of every possible human emotion watching this. There's not much more you can ask for.

[bushtail03]

how to watch MCU in chronological order (excluding agents of shield and the netflix/not netflix anymore shows):

1. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

2. Agent Carter seasons 1 & 2 (2015)

3. Captain Marvel (2019)

4. Iron Man (2008)

5. Iron Man 2 (2010)

6. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

7. Thor (2011)

8. The Avengers (2012)

9. Thor: The Dark World (2013)

10. Iron Man 3 (2013)

11. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

12. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

13. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 (2017)

14. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

15. Ant-Man (2015)

16. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

17. Black Widow (2021)

18. Doctor Strange (2016)

19. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

20. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

21. Black Panther (2018)

22. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

23. Venom (2018)

24. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

25. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

26. Loki seasons 1 & 2

27. What if? season 1 & 2

28. WandaVision (2021)

29. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

30. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

31. Eternals (2021)

32. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

33. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

34. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

35. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

36. hawkeye (2021)

37. Moon Knight (2022)

38. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

39. Morbius (2022)

40. Echo season 1

41. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)

42. Ms Marvel (2022)

43. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

44. Werewolf by Midnight (2022)

45. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

46. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 (2023)

47. Secret Invasion (2023)

48. The Marvels (2023)

49. Madam Web (2024)

50. Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

[orchidbreezefc]

are you afraid of bugs? well, i can't relate, but that sounds very difficult, so i've made a trigger guide for season 1 of the hit audio drama podcast 'sayer' timestamping and describing all the bug horror (and noises) in season 1 so you can listen safely! all of the following timestamps can be skipped without missing anything plot important.

ep2 "there are no bees on typhon" - sayer informs the resident his quarters will be unlocked by a 'thought password' which involves picturing a terror-inducing scenario. sayer walks the resident through an intense and graphically detailed description of a bee attack, complete with buzzing sound effects. this sequence lasts from 5:30-6:42. sayer informs the resident that there are no actual bees on typhon, but he experiences occasional auditory hallucinations of buzzing for the next 4 episodes. find timestamps at the end of the post.

ep4 "for science" - no bugs are actually present; the resident is asked to inject himself with bee venom from a syringe and has an allergic reaction.

ep 7 "pressure" - the episode's twist/punchline is the resident has physical reactions when speaking to a female researcher. sayer interprets this as "butterflies in the stomach" and urges the resident to confess his attraction and get it over with. instead the resident collapses because the physical reaction was from actual "insect-like creatures" manifesting in his abdomen. this information is revealed retroactively and not in detail, with no sound effects. im pretty sure this is a critique of heteronormativity but i'm not sure exactly how.

bee noise timestamps:

ep 2 "there are no bees on typhon" - 16:55-17:04 background droning which culminates in a buzzing noise like a bee flying past one's ear

ep 3 "do not stop running" - bee noise at 2:21, brief description of thought password at 2:55-3:02

ep 4 "for science" - 2:29

ep 5 "enjoy your break" - 2:29

i don't yet have a comprehensive guide for bug horror after season one, so be warned that this doesn't cover everything, but here's what i do have:

episode 19 has wasps, 23 has spiders, and 39 has bees. the bonus episode "the rose elf" also culminates in a bee attack; i recommend skipping it entirely if that bothers you. all you need to know is that apparently sayer reads some residents bedtime stories to help them sleep, and explains how the moral is actually that ærolith is watching your every move so never step out of line.

[ask-shrimpo-dandys-world]

the dumbest Toodles insults you have ever heard.

don't ask where I was going with these.

I don't know either.

1. Gremlin.

2. Skibidi Toilet Watcher.

3. iPad Kid.

4. Greasy Cheesy Finger Licker.

5. Ankle Biter.

6. Eats Pizza Without The Sauce.

7. Pet Simulator Player.

8. Toe Jam Eater.

9. Shiny Bald Head.

10. Broke Gambler.

11. Showerless Child.

12. 8 Ball Without Anything In It.

13. Adopt Me Player.

14. Ugly Face.

15. Allergic To Steam Games.

16. Gen Alpha.

17. Not Sigma.

18. Child.

19. Dog With Rabies.

20. Mayonnaise Drinker.

21. Drooler.

22. Brainrot.

23. Wood Chipper.

24. Crusty Toes.

25. Moldy Dress Wearer.

26. Toddler.

27. Peanut Butter Out Of The Jar Eater.

28. 7 Ball.

29. Dumbass Dog Wannabe.

30. Nintendo-less.

31. Doesn't Know What A GameCube Is.

32. YouTube Kids Watcher.

33. Wasp Hater.

34. Brookhaven Player.

35. Plushie Collecter.

36. Box Eater.

37. Sphere Head.

38. Water Hater.

39. Among Us Enjoyer.

40. Freak Of Nature.

41. Drywall Eater.

42. Jobless Idiot.

43. Vintage Looking Ass.

44. Cookie Stealer.

45. Can't Roll Higher Than A 21.

46. 8 Year Old.

47. Pillow Eater.

48. Fake Cheetah.

49. Black And White Pokemon.

50. More Hated Than You.

AHAHAHAHAA!!!!! YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brown-little-robin]

4, 6, 39 for the poetry ask game?

thanks for the ask! Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, and my favorite bioweapon, Pannacotta Fugo—a great combination!!

I love all three of these poems. bluebird is really perfect for Jason, the definition of Came Back Wrong (But Still Has Something Good In Him), and I like the choppy rhythm of it for his gruff but halting voice. Similarly, the rhythm of Arrhythmia—steady and confident—works really nicely for Damian. And The Window is simply. gorgeous. delicious piece of writing. the pensive, earnest yet wry tone. MUAH.

Jason Todd:

Bluebird

by Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Damian Wayne

Arrhythmia

by Hailey Leithauser

The heart of a bear is a cloud-shuttered mountain. The heart of a mountain’s a kiln. The white heart of a moth has nineteen white chambers. The heart of a swan is a swan.

The heart of a wasp is a prick of plush. The heart of a skunk is a mink. The heart of an owl is part blood and part chalice. The fey mouse heart rides a dawdy dust-cart.

The heart of a kestrel hides a house wren at nest. The heart of lark is a czar. The heart of a scorpion is swidden

and spark. The heart of a shark is a gear. Listen and tell, thrums the grave heart of humans. Listen well love, for it’s pitch dark down here.

Pannacotta Fugo

The Window

by Raymond Carver, 1938-1988

A storm blew in last night and knocked out the electricity. When I looked through the window, the trees were translucent. Bent and covered with rime. A vast calm lay over the countryside. I knew better. But at that moment I felt I'd never in my life made any false promises, nor committed so much as one indecent act. My thoughts were virtuous. Later on that morning, of course, electricity was restored. The sun moved from behind the clouds, melting the hoarfrost. And things stood as they had before.

[drhoz]

#2847 - Anastatus sp.

Tiny ant-like Eupelmid wasps, found worldwide (except Antarctica, as usual), quietly searching for insect eggs to parasitise. Some are very important biocontrol agents for major pests and invasive insect species, although, curiously, only male wasps hatch from the eggs of green vegetable bugs (Nezara viridula).

At least 27 species live in Australia.

The 39 genera of Eupelmids are most often parasitoids of beetle larvae, though many other hosts are attacked, including of course eggs, and spiders. Some are hyperparasites.

Uranquinty, NSW.

[heavymetal]

According to VH1 the Top 40 Hair Band’s are: 1. POISON, 2. TWISTED SISTER, 3. BON JOVI, 4. MOTLEY CRUE, 5. CINDERELLA, 6. WARRANT, 7. QUIET RIOT, 8. DEF LEPPARD, 9. SLAUGHTER, 10. DOKKEN, 11. RATT, 12. WINGER, 13. WHITESNAKE, 14. WHITE LION, 15. GREAT WHITE, 16. LITA FORD, 17. SKID ROW, 18. KISS, 19. BRITNY FOX, 20. SCORPIONS, 21. EUROPE, 22. WASP, 23. VIXEN, 24. FIREHOUSE, 25. DANGER, DANGER, 26. MR. BIG, 27. STRYPER, 28. LA GUNS, 29. TRIXTER, 30. BULLET BOYS, 31. TESLA, 32. SAIGON KICK, 33. KIX, 34. AUTOGRAPH, 35. FASTER PUSSYCAT, 36. NIGHT RANGER, 37. STEELHEART, 38. JACKYL, 39. EXTREME and 40. HANOI ROCKS/MICHAEL MONROE.