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animated fantasy films just don’t make fucked up evil castles like they used to

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hes waiting by the microwave

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Event Horizon (1997)

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It's in the eye of the beholder

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Sigourney Weaver for Aliens (1986)

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currently maybe possibly single-handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883

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Had a dream I was watching a tv show called “Shadows Die Twice” featuring Daniel Henney as the titular Wolf. The producer wanted a dark, melancholic story, but chickened out last minute and added Danny Devito as a jolly jesuit monk, who is revealed to be a disgraced castillan noble named Solaire of Astora.

In the last episode Wolf fights againt Yasuke, played by Samuel L. Jackson; Wolf says the phrase “because Shadows. Die. Twice.” before delivering the final blow to Yasuke.

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House On Haunted Hill (1959)

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Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

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Andrew Blucha

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El Laberinto del Fauno

Ian Bertram

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Svetoslav Petrov

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Sometimes, Chris Hayes' podcast goes off on these weird tangents, and the most recent episode is one of them, quite explicitly. It's about the history of Polynesia, which is always a fascinating subject--the Polynesian expansion, and really the whole history of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, seems like one of those feats with rare equal in human history. It's one thing to roam over the vast steppes of Asia--it's quite another to take a canoe, stick some outriggers on it so it doesn't tip over, and start faring the open ocean.

One point his guest makes that I found interesting is that for the most part the atolls and little islands of the Pacific are a very harsh environment. Big volcanic archipelagoes like Hawaii and Aotearoa/New Zealand are rare. Atolls and other reef islands especially are functionally big limestone slabs, often without any source of fresh water, with no large mammals, and with few native plants you can eat. The weather is nice, sure (when there isn't a typhoon--and I can't help but think a typhoon on a little island must be terrifying indeed), but these are not inherently resource-rich places. That the Polynesian (and Micronesian and Melanesian!) peoples not only could travel those distances, but make permanent habitation on the islands they came across, is kind of crazy! You have to be really prepared, with a package of supplies and technologies that set you up for success. Long-distance trade is possible, but you're not gonna be running any kind of substantial import economy across hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean via catamarans.

The comparison that springs to mind to me isn't a historical one like the European age of exploration, which was overwhelmingly to places already peopled and productive, but to science fiction scenarios of space exploration. You'd have to have a little bit of the wild-eyed zealot to be the sort of person who ignores the cries of "there is no possible useful return on this investment" to settle most of these places. But they did! And they thrived for centuries!

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“Actinolite containing a fragment of Orlandu's skeleton. Increases power against humans.”

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