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Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, June 1897 (Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee) by George Sherwood Hunter (Scottish, 1846–1919)

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025), dir Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

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WAIT I LIED ONE MORE THOUGHT

Would LOVE to see Mira and Zoey learn that Rumi ran to Celine asking her to take her out. Ramifications of THAT would be stellar to see play out bc yeah!! Learning your friend is a creature you've been fighting this whole time is one thing and then learning that friend was basically asking her mother/mother figure to take her out and you wouldn't have even KNOWN!!! KPOP DEMON HUNTERS I am banging on your doors!!

Also I feel like out of all of them Zoey would probably be the one to need to talk about killing demons now. You know she's like "But what if they're like Rumi :(" and Mira's like 'Okay but Rumi's not killing people Zoey'

More thoughts on Kpop Demon Hunters Under the thread but you know, spoilers so click with caution

Love the story itself, great concept and honestly strong execution on almost all levels.

The unique things Sony Animation keeps pushing with each of their movies is really great imo. Every movie from their animation division has done something unique with the 3D style and I love that!

The storyboarding and camera angles in this one is fire - there were so many shots that I had to make note of looking up later/hoping they show how they mapped that out.

Storywise, I like a lot of what they mapped out for what could clearly be a series of either movies or an entire season of a show. Yes, a lot of plots holes are left with that final ending sooo idk I am curious to hear from the director and writers about that. Seems a lot had to be done in a short amount of time BUT also I can't complain too much idk what to say the industry amiright.

Love the concept of rebuilding a Honmoon that's based in what the new Hunters believe in.

TBH some part of me is like 'that could have been a potentially interesting thing to explore as part of KPop idols required to live such certain lives/expectations/never shows flaws and these particular fictional KPop stars choose to literally rebuild the system they were brought into/allow Rumi and themselves to live as themselves. Idk I think it would track better with Golden! But I am also not a story writer so obviously a lot of things would have to be retooled for that.

Things I would love to see explored if they get a sequel/series

Rumi's past ofc - who is her dad/what went down with her mom and him and their group of hunters. Where is the other one?? If there's three and one died and one was left to raise her child...idk a lot to explore there.

Ditto how did Celine build Huntrix - do they just hold auditions until they find the right 'match'. I'm assuming less with voices and more with personal struggles - and maybe that's lost a bit with Cyrene anyways since she clearly bought into the older way of doing things.

Mira's family!!! We're told she was a problem child and a black sheep so if we get a sequel idk...Mira's brother potentially showing up?? Wanting to connect with a sister who he was never close with but sees her face everywhere?

Likewise - what is Zoey's family backstory, since it's clear in Golden she was a child of divorce - though something that I didn't see until a rewatch is that she's holding a Sunlight Sisters Record!

The tree?? with Celine?? We see it in Rumi's part of Golden and she has her emotional moment with Celine there so is something tied to that other than the grave?

Hope any sequels expand on Rumi's Demon power and yes in a fun way. If she can transport by smoke you KNOW Mira and Zoey are asking her to transport them short distances that are just a stupid abuse of powers. Rumi's like 'idk even know this works I don't want to hurt you guys' and they're like 'yeah we know let's just try it :)'

Rumi starts having this crisis of faith while fighting the demons and what they really are motivated by after she speaks with Jinu but also they are stealing people's souls so you know - maybe some kind of resolution on what happens to folks once they're down there (I'm 99% they just died?? so maybe coping with that in some way in a sequel)

Finally would love to see if they have Bobby either a) brought in on the demon thing and he just rolls with it or b) he thinks it's a new gimmick or c) DOES acknowledge that this is a Thing but also knows acknowledging it is WILD so he's just like 'Gonna ignore this and stay in my lane and do my job' while also knowing the trio is off fighting demons any time they're not on stage. Ngl when it seemed like Bobby was taken I was like 'YES' bc I love the dynamic of bff of some superhero trio needing them but often overlooked so like idk Netflix if you want a writer for a series please!! accept these notes but don't hire me Idk what the fuck I'm doing.

Idk more of the trio doing stupid things together but this movie showed the fun bits of them carbo loading and spa days so I would love more of that with them!!

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More thoughts on Kpop Demon Hunters Under the thread but you know, spoilers so click with caution

Love the story itself, great concept and honestly strong execution on almost all levels.

The unique things Sony Animation keeps pushing with each of their movies is really great imo. Every movie from their animation division has done something unique with the 3D style and I love that!

The storyboarding and camera angles in this one is fire - there were so many shots that I had to make note of looking up later/hoping they show how they mapped that out.

Storywise, I like a lot of what they mapped out for what could clearly be a series of either movies or an entire season of a show. Yes, a lot of plots holes are left with that final ending sooo idk I am curious to hear from the director and writers about that. Seems a lot had to be done in a short amount of time BUT also I can't complain too much idk what to say the industry amiright.

Love the concept of rebuilding a Honmoon that's based in what the new Hunters believe in.

TBH some part of me is like 'that could have been a potentially interesting thing to explore as part of KPop idols required to live such certain lives/expectations/never shows flaws and these particular fictional KPop stars choose to literally rebuild the system they were brought into/allow Rumi and themselves to live as themselves. Idk I think it would track better with Golden! But I am also not a story writer so obviously a lot of things would have to be retooled for that.

Things I would love to see explored if they get a sequel/series

Rumi's past ofc - who is her dad/what went down with her mom and him and their group of hunters. Where is the other one?? If there's three and one died and one was left to raise her child...idk a lot to explore there.

Ditto how did Celine build Huntrix - do they just hold auditions until they find the right 'match'. I'm assuming less with voices and more with personal struggles - and maybe that's lost a bit with Cyrene anyways since she clearly bought into the older way of doing things.

Also on the subject of Celine - until we're told otherwise I'm going to assume she knew being on one side of the Honmoon meant you were fine bc that is a HELL of a gamble to take with your surrogate kid and knowing they're half demon. Like what if they sealed the Honmoon as 'golden' and Rumi was sent to the demon realm? Again it seems like that's a non-issue movie-wise.

Mira's family!!! We're told she was a problem child and a black sheep so if we get a sequel idk...Mira's brother potentially showing up?? Wanting to connect with a sister who he was never close with but sees her face everywhere?

Likewise - what is Zoey's family backstory, since it's clear in Golden she was a child of divorce - though something that I didn't see until a rewatch is that she's holding a Sunlight Sisters Record!

The tree?? with Celine?? We see it in Rumi's part of Golden and she has her emotional moment with Celine there so is something tied to that other than the grave?

Hope any sequels expand on Rumi's Demon power and yes in a fun way. If she can transport by smoke you KNOW Mira and Zoey are asking her to transport them short distances that are just a stupid abuse of powers. Rumi's like 'idk even know this works I don't want to hurt you guys' and they're like 'yeah we know let's just try it :)'

Rumi starts having this crisis of faith while fighting the demons and what they really are motivated by after she speaks with Jinu but also they are stealing people's souls so you know - maybe some kind of resolution on what happens to folks once they're down there (I'm 99% they just died?? so maybe coping with that in some way in a sequel)

Finally would love to see if they have Bobby either a) brought in on the demon thing and he just rolls with it or b) he thinks it's a new gimmick or c) DOES acknowledge that this is a Thing but also knows acknowledging it is WILD so he's just like 'Gonna ignore this and stay in my lane and do my job' while also knowing the trio is off fighting demons any time they're not on stage. Ngl when it seemed like Bobby was taken I was like 'YES' bc I love the dynamic of bff of some superhero trio needing them but often overlooked so like idk Netflix if you want a writer for a series please!! accept these notes but don't hire me Idk what the fuck I'm doing.

Idk more of the trio doing stupid things together but this movie showed the fun bits of them carbo loading and spa days so I would love more of that with them!!

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The Louvre

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and what are we going to do when the HP series comes out and we start seeing a resurgence of the fandom here including gifsets and fics. like are u guys gonna bring up your neurodivergence and cry "can we separate the art from the artist!!!!! you dont need to pay to watch it!!!!!its my comfort show and I'm DEPRESSED and AUTISTIC"

what then

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Kpop Demon Hunters Thoughts to Put Them Somewhere

Loved it overall! Art book? Please, art book. Please Netflix art book. I'll have more thoughts later but such a lovely, gorgeously-styled movie with some really creative design choices made to reflect huge, KPOP concert settings with the lighting, choreography, motion - amazing. Yes, that final 20 mins of the film seem like producer meddling/some things seemed left out of the final cut BUT I do hope this gets a sequel or at least a series. Soundtrack on repeat though, strong acts 1 and 2 and I wish we could get an art book of this!!!

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Look Up

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I don't usually dabble in realism - but this was a gift for someone very meaningful in my life. And some things just deserve to be painted as they are.

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Okay but so surprised to not see any talk or fanart of the scene where Haymitch is holed up in the Capital apartment, made a prisoner and still in shock with no sense of time only to have him suddenly wake up in the middle of the night in a pile of blankets in the living room to see the ghostly apparition-recording of Lucy Gray Baird's interview from her hunger games. The moment where she gestures to the figure in the shadows and the readers all know who it is but the recording cuts out before Haymitch can see, and we see him realize in his own time who it actually is While so many scenes in the books are stark and hard to read based on their brutality and realism, THIS was such a genuine moment that gave me chills - just in terms of having a reader and protagonist face a ghost of a character in different ways.

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If by any chance we do get another HG stand alone novel, I always thought it would be cool if she wrote a POV from someone who was turned into Avox - we know there were so many rebellion attempts, so it would be interesting to follow one at some point in the timeline (maybe even after?? the events of Mockingjay?) What's going on in the new form of government after Katniss goes back to 12.

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hope is all we have

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Bridgerton spoilers

Honestly after reading all the Bridgerton books, I am ALL FOR this reveal for Shonda/Netflix! Michael/Michaela Reveal Esp. because of how Michael in the books is written. IMO, the men in those series...you can discuss all day how some of them are written but I found a few parts with them to be the sort of heterosexual/slightly misognistic way the men and women are are written in early 2000's romances. So having Michael be a woman?? Having Francesca discover she loves "a quiet love" with any partner no matter their gender? In the book she's upset bc she can't have children but I would love to see this storyline tackle that you can have children without going a biological route. Having her find love a second time AND discover that they can raise a family through unconventional methods seems so lovely. Before anyone saying that it's not possible like it is Shondaland-drama like they can find a way to work with that.

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Leonid Brahilovsky - The Blue Moscow, 1920th

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Homeward Bound from China - The Tea Clipper Maitland, by Derek G.M. Gardner (1914-2007)