#nom: documentary

[theoscarsproject]

For All Mankind (1989). An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

God, I would love to see this on the big screen. What incredible footage, and a genuinely very good documentary. It really feels like it lets the astronauts guide the stories, following these chapters of travel to the moon in a way that feels as awe-inspiring as it should. Just a really, really good doco. 8/10.

[hooned]

fanmade, ENHYPEN : documentary trailer

[hereticaas]

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[eatinghammers]

Snirus headcanons #11

Severus sleeps with hello kitty pajama pants and a hoodie. Sirius teases him about it, but he sleeps in plain old boxers.

Severus thinks water isn't wet— and he's right— and Sirius thinks water is wet. "Can I have a cup of wet water, Sev?" "Tch, sorry, all out of wet water, but we do have not wet water."

Sirius learned that Sev never had a pillow/blanket for growing up, so one day he made on while Severus was gone. Severus pretended to hate it, but he actually loved it, he appreciated it a lot. Sirius knew that.

"HOW CAN YOU EAT THAT, THAT'S FIRE! WHAT HOT SAUCE DID YOU PUT— SATANS PISS?" "I didn't realize it was spicy, Sirius." It happens all the time.

"I swear, this is why your mother disowned you." "Oh my gosh, Sev, this right here is why your father beat you." It's a love language, it's all jokes, and if someone else said that, it turns into a true crime documentary.

Severus likes sparkling water.

"nom nom nom." "Sirius, if you bite me again, I'm going to punch you."

[uritur-infelix]

Learning Irish political vocab so that I can understand more of the documentaries that I'm watching. Now I can say things like "titim an chumannachais" ("the fall of communism"), "réabhlóid" ("revolution") and "dialathas" ("theocracy") in Irish.

Also coming to terms with how "-ach" mostly denotes adjectives, while "-aí" denotes people/nouns:

"daonlathas" ("democracy") "daonlathaí" ("a democrat") "daonlathach" ("democratic")

"sóisialachas" ("socialism") "sóisialaí" ("a socialist") "sóisialach" ("socialistic")

The exception seems to be "poblachtach", which can be either an adjective and noun. The only way to distinguish them seems to be in the nom. pl. ("-aigh" vs "-a"):

"na Poblachtaigh" ("the Republicans")

"dreamanna poblachtacha" ("republican groups")

[colorisbyshe]

mattel is owned by an israeli who was promoting the ~october 7th “documentary” (propaganda)

so maybe less caping for the barbie movie and crying about how it was “snubbed” when it got at least 5 noms too many lmfao

like… the oscar’s TO THIS DAY are racist as hell, are used to distract from real life atrocities, and here you are crying about a billion dollar movie not getting enough noms

free promo to go into mattel’s ceo’s zionist pockets lmfao.

[seanthedracunyan]

Do you like teen titans go or any dc/marvel characters I could talk to? I’m in a superhero mood today.

Starfire: oh im a member of the teen titans. Though im confused on who these Marvel and DC people are.

Miles: yeah if you want a super villain taken down. Were your guys. Oh and starfire your apart of DC. Im Marvel.

Wait so that show robin shown about us is DC ? And... not us ?.

Midoriya: well your more of a part. I think of it as like a documentary or a showing of past events...its basically what the real world sees us as. Which makes me think Chi eince you have a quirk or magic or a nom real world human power is your dimension or i guess how real worlders out it um franchise ? Maybe that can make us know what world your from. Everyone in the Outerverse has been asking maybe your from mine or alternate version like most of marvel and dc worlds or maybe a lego version theres alot of those or maybe a live action world or maybe anime or video game world. Maybe high fantasy world, or superhuman like ours or-

Ultra-Man: HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GONNA RAMBLE ON AND ON IM DONE TEACHING YOU!

Gwen: ignore those two. Ultra-guy here is trying to tell izuku for ages not to over question stuff. Its kinda simpler the better kinda deal

Ultra-Man: its Ultra-Man to you ! Ugh kids these days. Back in my day my people knew how to say my name right.

Miles: Yeah it would cool to know your world. Whats it like in your dimension. I mean me and gwen kinda do our thing in many versions of new york. Im sure you heard the spider-fam... i think thats were naming it know. I dont know peter never sticked with it. Then there DC and they have alot of crazy just like us marvel then theres My Hero Academia which-

Gambit: which is basically what if all us X-Men mutants were 80%, or 90% of all those people in another world. Kinda crazy how that Nezu guy and Xavier are friends

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

not swifties screaming and crying about how Taylor has ''earned'' all of her success through hard work as if she's not the poster child of mainstream music. her parents pulled the strings to get in to the scene (which i actually didnt know and was SHOCKED to find out), she gets so much radioplay, gets nominated every year in every category they can shove her in, wins awards she doesn't deserve and literally has every door open for her. it's d-i-s-g-u-s-t-i-n-g. learning about musicians who had so much passion for music that in order to make it they left home, had to live on the street, couldn't afford to eat and yet they kept playing gigs until they caught the eye of a record label is crazy. but sure, Taylor just worked so fucking hard to make the most soulless music know to man. poor her

YES HER WIKIPEDIA PAGE IS SO INCRIMINATING

she came from a family with an immense amount of wealth and she is spoiled beyond belief. going to nyc EVERY weekend for vocal lessons? can you imagine going to nashville with your mom and demo-ing tapes all bc you felt inspired by a documentary? the amount of time, resources and investment they were able to put in?!? hiring a talent manager?!? her dad literally having the privilege to change branches of his work to further her career?!? i wouldnt be surprised at all if her parents are paying for these noms at award shows and her awards themselves. no wonder she’s so entitled she’s been getting everything she wants her whole life! how much of a hard worker/grinder can you be when all of this was handed to you on a silver platter? so many artists deserve the spotlight she has but will never get it because of her greed and consistent ability to sell. her success really is so frustrating knowing how many talented artists there are out there who will never be as successful because of the means they were born into. ugh i hate her

[theoscarsproject]

Let's Get Lost (1988). Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's earlier life and some modern-day performances.

What a documentary! An incredibly well-directed, harrowing, tender portrait of jazz musician, Chet Baker, made only months before his death at the age of 58. The juxtaposition between the dynamic young musician and the ruined older one, after being ravaged by drugs, is tragic to say the least, but everyone seems to enter it both honestly and with compassion. Just really, really good filmmaking. 9/10.

[bitchcakegreen]

Let’s chat about this for a moment. Many are blaming this on Netflix splitting the season like that did, meaning that only half of the season falls within the Emmy selection time frame. But that’s only part of a bigger issue. While Netflix did somewhat prevent anyone from the show being nominated for Emmys because of the split, there is also a huge bias against romance properties.

What I mean is no one was going to get nominated for writing, acting or directing anyway. Costumes and makeup might have been, but not the three categories mention. Hollywood and the guilds don’t think romance is a viable genre and they tend to look their noses down on it. Same with the superhero projects. I remember the absolute shock when Elizabeth Olsen received a nom for her performance in WandaVision. A much deserved nom because her performance was so layered and intense.

But with romance, it’s always been the genre that people ridicule and belittle - usually while consuming it like rabid dogs - it’s not “art” and therefore not “worthy”

Which is a damn shame. Bridgerton has become a phenomena, especially this season, and instead of focusing all the hardwork the day and crew put in providing a nuisanced, layered and lush show for people, they ignore it as fluff.

There is a bias against Netflix when it comes to awards. The studio system and the powers that be don’t appreciate Netflix or Amazon Prime, despite both being a huge force in filmmaking. I remember when a Netflix documentary was nominated, and won, an Oscar. People were livid. That opened the door for more respectful viewing but the noms are still slow to come.

I think several folks should be nominated for Emmys from Bridgerton, for wigs and costumes alone, but sadly it’s not to be this season. Maybe in the future the Emmy guild will yank that big old stick out of their collective asses about romance.

One can hope.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava I fought with the YPG and I'm upset by the patronising reaction to Anna Campbell's death [UPDATES]

I have been called a ‘psycho’ and accused of having a death wish, but I have never been told that, like Anna who fought for the YPJ, my actions were naive…

RELATED UPDATE: Anna Campbell’s father: ‘I don’t think I had any right to stop her fighting in Syria’

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[rainbowdaisy13]

i think taylor's current problem with the rerecords is that she's so hellbent on surprising the fans and doing something unexpected with rep tv that she keeps missing her chances because fans come up with theories that are plausible and make sense and she doesn't want to seem predictable, especially not with rep and the image that surrounds the og. and on top of that there's her totally private actually super public life drama that she keeps trying to fit into molds so she can use it for publicity and garner hype for the rerecords. except the blake lawsuit is getting messier by the minute and travis keeps getting trashier and she keeps being "apolitical" while surrounding herself with maga people. so she can't use that because for once in her life it's truly out of her control and she's so afraid of misstepping she'd rather freeze.

she's now 5 months after the eras tour and her two big public things since then have been the super bowl and the grammys within weeks of each other and she missed out on using those outings to her advantage of garneringnattention and hype for the rerecords. nobody in the ga cares about travis beyind him being her current boyfriend (with the assumption that aurely they'll break up at some point, she couldn't even get joe to stay) and the fandom got so used to daily content during the eras tour that her current visibility doesn't cut it anymore to keep them engaged to the level taylor has come to expect them to be.

so now from what i've seen fans are kind of expecting her to announce rep tv at the amas which would be tacky and not an original move but at least it would make some kind of sense to use that outing and not have to plan an entire campaign to hype things up. oh and summer is around the corner which is a slow period when it comes to business and the "songs of the summer" are being released right now, so she's kind of running out of time there as well, which means she kind of backed herself into a corner for no reason other than theninability to give up evena. sliver of control.

if i were her team i'd probably just commit to it once and for all instead of moving the goalposts for no readon. drop a random announcement ig post on june 13 because she loves that number and release rep tv on july 4 for all i care, brand it as the all-american reclamation of taypendence or something dumb that conservatives will salivate over because yay patriotic taylor. and then end the rerecords era with dropping debut around karlie's birthday because she would be petty and deranged enough to do that on multiple levels.

and as a bonus she'd be done with her rerecords by mid august, ahead of the deadline, within the grammy nom window (i think), banked on both of her albums and the vault tracks providing summer songs to complement the last season of the summer i turned pretty (which famously spends a lot of their budget on using her songs in the soundtrack), and she'll be able to fuck off for the forseeable and deal with the mess that is her personal life if she actually wants to this time. (or maybe she can just fuck off until she announces the eras tour documentary feat darling tk in time for black friday sales and holiday shopping, documentary merch included obvi)

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[agentfascinateur]

Hollywood call for withdrawing Bisan Owda's Emmy Nomination - DENIED

Creative Community for Peace, a pro-Israel nonprofit organization, called for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to rescind an Emmy nomination for Bisan Atef Owda, a Palestinian journalist. Owda was nominated by NATAS in the Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form category, for the series “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.” They allege that Owda has documented ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a United States-designated terrorist organization. The letter, was signed by More than 150 entertainment industry leaders, including the likes of Debra Messing, Selma Blair, Sherry Lansing, Rick Rosen, Haim Saban, and Michael Rotenberg, among others.

Thank you for your letter of August 19, 2024, concerning the nomination of “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” for a 2024 News & Documentary Emmy Award. The News & Documentary Emmys have recognized excellence in television journalism for nearly half a century. The honored programs and reports have taken viewers to the front lines of every world conflict, probed political and cultural divides, and sought to illuminate even the darkest circumstances. Some of these works have been controversial, giving a platform to voices that certain viewers may find objectionable or even abhorrent. But all have been in the service of the journalistic mission to capture every facet of the story. In every case, submissions to the News & Documentary Emmys are judged by experienced journalists from across multiple news organizations, serving in an independent, volunteer capacity. NATAS does not intervene in or countermand the judgment of these journalists except when competition rules have been violated, nor does NATAS determine the eligibility or ineligibility of news reporting based on the political views represented. “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” was reviewed by two successive panels of independent judges, including senior editorial leadership from each significant U.S. broadcast news network. It was selected for nomination from among more than 50 submissions in one of the year’s most competitive categories. The piece was also recognized for journalistic achievement by the Peabody Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Awards, each administered by processes and organizations wholly separate from and independent of NATAS and the News & Documentary Emmys. NATAS is aware of reports, cited in your letter and initially surfaced by a communications consultant in the region, that appear to show a then-teenaged Bisan Owda speaking at various PFLP-associated events between six and nine years ago.  NATAS has been unable to corroborate these reports, nor has it been able, to date, to surface any evidence of more contemporary or active involvement by Owda with the PFLP organization. Most critically, the content submitted for award consideration was consistent with competition rules and NATAS policies. Accordingly, NATAS has found no grounds, to date, upon which to overturn the editorial judgment of the independent journalists who reviewed the material. Thank you. I appreciate your courtesy in sharing our response with your cosigners. Sincerely, Adam Sharp, NATAS President & CEO

[allys-diary]

stories i om-nom-nom'd :: january 2025

Sporadic updates because much as I can balance my life (somewhat), I still need some practice before I can fully leave my bedrotting days behind me

All the stuff after the cut

tv shows

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤

Decided to finally watch some of the near-feature-length projects that were involved in this horror anthology, and let's say some were hits, some where alright, and some were full on misses. Spun the wheel of names to determine what my sample size would be and here they are…

They Come Knocking Had it not been for Robyn Lively and her portrayal of the mother both in human and (imagined) monstrous ghost form, I would have (and should have) DNF'd this. || full review here

School Spirit I'm honestly a bit indifferent about the "ghost" red herring, but I can appreciate the attempt at a pun for naming the episode School Spirit when there's an urban legend of a spirit roaming the halls of the school. Other than that all I have to say to Brett is…my dude, weren't you tired having to change into the costume before you went for a kill and then changing back to rejoin the group and pull the innocent act? Weren't you like…sweaty? How are you not sweaty?? || full review here

Pure Watching a piece about toxic girl dads with my own dad was a vibe that I honestly recommend if you have a healthy relationship with y'alls fathers. We roasted the everloving fuck out of these weirdos. Also…the jumpscares in this one got me, Lilith you're a baddie but honestly you did me a bit dirty with that bed jumpscare how very dare you || full review here

documentaries

𝐃𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐲: 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥

I feel like this barely scratched the surface of what the actual allegations are, and it was pieced together somewhat haphazardly just so they can say they were one of the first to drop the documentary on this POS excuse of a person. I'm gonna wait for the one 50 Cent's working on. Josh Johnson said it best, "I hope Diddy gets life, and I hope he lives forever"

games

𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐟 & 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧��𝐬

With GameHouse deciding to stop the story updates for Delicious World last year, it seems Mytona has stepped up to the plate in the realm of episodic story-driven cooking games. At first glance, what I'm getting is that we play as a chef traveling the world with our friend Claire and helping breathe a new life into run down restaurants before the evil corporate man that owns a chain of robot-run food establishments, Ethan, can buy them out of their property. There's a potential romance side story between Claire and the interior designer, Greg, but I haven't gotten that far into the story yet

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

I've finally finished the main story of what seems to be "Season 1" as far as the lore goes, and honestly in my mind Sunblink & Sanrio still haven't beaten the Loki allegations because the entire story of "Season 1" revolves around an island spirit stuck in a tree deep in the heart of the island who's hurting because she believes her friends abandoned her. And with the reveal of Retsuko's friend Fenneko that apparently this entire YEAR-LONG adventure that we've been on has only happened in the span of TWO DAYS for anyone outside the island. My mind's wrecked, we're stuck in some time prison thingy that's separate to the rest of the world where time moves differently, the being that keeps the island alive was stuck in a tree, and I can't help but go "is this the TVA? Island Spirit, is your name Loki??"

[thejohnlockedfemboy]

*sits nicely in the terrarium and crawls over to the father figure John Price content*

Nom nom

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:snaps a photo:

in documentary narrator voice

here we find the rare cod alien anon feeding in a simulation of its natural habitat, a behavior never before caught on camera! Watch as it consumes the content with vigor and awaits its next bot meal.

[knownangels]

blood pressure

It’s rare that anyone is invited to one of their outings. They’re not quite girls nights, because Nomi’s brow does a cute little furl at the label. Doesn’t quite apply, even if it gives each date a label Matilda knows she’s coveted since she was a kid. Girls night meant having friends, meant being invited and involved and wanted. Included. 

So on the off-chance that outsiders are invited, it’s usually not one of the boys. Xavier occasionally, if “out” means club or pizza. Benji, if it’s a quiet tag-along to the art store and cafe afterwards. Naima and-slash-or Mouse to dinner, Lark on one catastrophically memorable bar trip where Matilda had, of course, roped him into an argument after receiving a free drink from some weirdo regular.  

Maran hasn’t come with them. Yet. 

But Matilda is, if not anything else, very perceptive when it comes to her best friend. Nomi is about as elusive as they come. And while it might be easy to say she wants to untangle the mystery for the prestige of it, the bragging rights of understanding such a strange little creature…well, it’d be a lie. At the end of the day she wants Nomi happy. She’d do quite honestly anything to see that goal realized — as mushy and cringe and over-warm as admitting that makes her feel. 

As of late, Nomi has seemed the happiest and most herself when her little buzz cut shadow is following her around. Matilda is protective of Maran in a way that Benji probably relates to. But that protectiveness won’t stop her from putting him on a hook just for Nomi. He’s the perfect little colorful wriggling lure. 

She’ll settle for bragging rights of matchmaker. Even though their orbit around each other seems destined for an adorable, dorky collision.

Like now, at the shopping center food court, the two of them are leaned across the table into each others’ space. Nomi’s babbling about her latest convention trip — Atlanta or Nashville or something down south, where she’d been a national or regional or whatever finalist in a cosplay competition. Her manicured black fingernail taps along her phone screen, swiping picture after picture of costumes that Matilda has to begrudge as…really well-crafted. Unless it’s Nomi, or Xavier talking her to sleep with some NatGeo history documentary in the background, Matilda really prefers not to give nerds their flowers. 

Keeps them humble.

But she does love listening to Nomi regale the drama and politics behind the scene. She had no idea these sorts of activities could be so deliciously cutthroat. Trophies and titles and controversy, lying and cheating and sabotage? 

“Who knew a bunch of video game obsesseès could be cunty?”

“Oh man,” Maran says, tapping Nomi’s wrist to stop her swiping. “Is that a Soul Caliber one? That’s so good.” 

“That’s Josette.” Nomi says with a twist of admiration and spite that pulls Matilda’s full interest. “She’s just cunty.”

Maran’s eyes go big. “I thought that was good?”

“Bad cunty, Mar.” Matilda reaches across to pat his cheek. “Start taking notes.” 

Nomi pouts at the grid of gorgeously color-graded, professionally-taken, and expertly-posed pictures.

“Well I can’t bend that way.” She grumbles, lifting another mouthful of noodles. It’s certainly more difficult to chew with her chin propped in her hand, but somehow she manages — and looks cute, too.

“You shrimp sit in your chair for fourteen hours a day.” Matilda points out, voice overlapping with Maran’s exclamation:

“Flexibility is so important overall though, Noms.” He does a little arm-over-elbow stretch. Clearly, he thinks he’s being motivating. Matilda isn’t sure he realizes that he’s showing off. “Just a few minutes a day, like while you’re waitin’ for your tea or whatever. Helps out so much, promise. Posin’ too!” 

Matilda hms thoughtfully, sensing an opportunity. “Overall, huh?” She has the pleasure of watching the gears shift in Nomi’s head. 

“Posing flexibility.” She downs another too-big bite of noodles thoughtfully. “Well…Oh! D’you suppose it helps sex, too? Like positions? I’ve always had a few I wanted to try but—”

Matilda lifts a hand to her mouth, refusing to show her cards through the smirk. She loves when Nomi gets like this. Matter-of-fact but totally socially inept with her curiosity at play. She can’t help but glance their friend’s way — he’s faring much worse than amusement. 

Maran sits there with his jaw nearly unhinged, fork paused halfway to his mouth. He is going hilariously, incrementally red. 

“I would assume so,” Matilda says, but only after she pauses to gather herself. “Maran said overall health, right? Give it a month and I’ll bet you could—”

“Maran are you feeling alright?”

“Yes.” Maran stutters. Liar, Matilda thinks fondly. Fucking awful one.

“When’s the last time you got your blood pressure checked?” Matilda snickers. “Gotta be careful with the junk food. You can have all the flexibility you want but if it comes to blood pressure, sex is totally off the table.” She pauses, snorts. “No pun intended.”

“On the table,” Nomi says absentmindedly, as if she’s got a running list of positions she’d like to try and is adding to that. As if. Matilda knows she does. “Is that true about blood pressure and sex?”

“Girl, why do you think you’re always hearing stories about old men stroking out mid-stroke?”

“Why is your example always old men.” 

“You are so desperate to hear about my sexual escapades.” Matilda loftily teases. “Maybe you should try having some of your own?”

“I’m trying—”

Maran stands abruptly. They both look at him. 

“Mar?”

“You alright?”

“I need to go.” He blurts. Then somehow goes redder. “I mean I’ve got to piss.” His eyes widen, almost look teary. “I mean I’ll be right back I need—”

“Some air?” Matilda offers. She points towards the other end of the mall, where there’s a little atrium and open windows. Maran nods jerkily and then dashes in the wrong direction. They watch him stumble, look over his shoulder, avoid eye contact with either of them, and then rush past to go the opposite and correct direction. 

When he’s out of sight, Matilda levels Nomi with one of their patented Looks. 

“You’re going to kill him before you can test his blood pressure.” Matilda steals a bite of her remaining ramen. “Or flexibility.”

Nomi blinks at her. Owlish and pretty and totally fucking obtuse behind her giant glasses. 

Matilda would kill for her. Maybe not with her bare hands - gross. But definitely kill.