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@kdramaspace 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW | Cinematic Excellence
@userdramas get to know me bingo: Cinematography
My Stand In ตัวนาย ตัวแทน, (2024) dir. Pepzi Banchorn
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"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).
Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger
June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.
Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.
Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"
Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."
From another obituary:
He served valiantly in every way.
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wunmi mosaku • via instagram • @/dionnesmithhair
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Angel 2x7 - "Darla"
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The horrors of the British boarding school, the things you learn about yourself in the men's locker room, and what the Chrestomanci series is really about (it's Chrestomanci.)
Transcript available here, and we'll be back in two weeks with Archer's Goon!
NB: We mentioned Deborah Kaplan's essay "Diana Wynne Jones and the World-Shaping Power of Language", available in "Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom," but also wanted to shout out A.K. Larkwood's "Imagining Other Worlds in Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week," which prefigures a lot of the queer reading we did in this episode.
#witch week#diana wynne jones#i wonder if i would have had a different reaction to this if i had read it earlier#i came upon it in my twenties and basically just went yup that's what school was like#(and also where's chrestomanci?)#it made me smile wryly when the pod talked about the dystopia of having to write your secret thoughts knowing that a teacher would read#because guess what! we had that in my school#and the teacher thought the bullies were plucky and lively#i would say that the main difference is that the kids at the bottom are aware that it's wrong#i had no concept of it being wrong#once i went skating with my older sister and the boys in my class jeered and threw ice at us#and i went oh she lives in a completely different world#in my world that was normal#i didn't even think of it as bullying it was my punishment for existing wrong#anyway point is i think with all that ten years behind me i was desensitized#maybe even a little bored in a don't cite the deep magic to me way#i wonder what would have happened if i had read it at 11#but we will ever know because only a handful of dwj books were ever translated to swedish#*never know#oh i missed the part where my sister went home and cried#that's kind of vital because that sort of thing didn't happen to her
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they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan
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They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body
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I beg your pardon. Which of these little gifts...
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The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!
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#hunger games fanart#yeah i think with some explanation she may get it#not the full plot of the hunger games perhaps#but the general principle
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In a protest against censorship, photographer A.L. Schafer staged this iconic photograph in 1934, violating as many rules as possible in one shot.
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I must have seen this picture a hundred times, and only now did I realize that the lady on the left has a caterpillar boa!

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.
go!
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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
#yeah if they want to terraform a planet they could start by saving the earth#but of course that's not as flashy
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