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I'm just this last week back in a groove thinking bout Hamlet stuff, and now today I learn of not one but two Hamlet movies premiering at Telluride: Riz Ahmed and a documentary about Oscar Isaac's production.

And then there's Hamnet, but I already knew that one was coming and that it sounded up my alley.

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ANDOR (2022–2025) 2.10: MAKE IT STOP

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julia_tv called Liquid Snake "Wet Noodle" and now how can I possibly refer to Liquid by any name other than that?

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I love stories where people become un-doomed by the narrative because I have a deeply and fiercely-held belief in self-determination, that no fate or failure or person or system is inevitable or immortal, that we should rage against the dying of the light, and that art is the vital first step of encouraging people to resist those who would hurt them by claiming there's "nothing we can do about it".

I love stories where people fail to become un-doomed by the narration because I guess I'm a masochist or something.

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I must confess that when I want something accomplished in my apartment complex that no one will do anything about I will make my own leaflets in adobe indesign with the leasing company logo on them and then post them around the building

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I wish there was a better cultural shorthand for enjoying a work for it's badness while also making it clear that it comes from a place of deep love, and a recognition of the self in the other. Consider the relationship one has to the art they made in middle school.

It's often poorly constructed, embarrassingly revealing, poorly aged, etc. You don't want to denigrate it, because it's good and necessary that amateurish art exist. But also sometimes it sucks in ways that are funny and genuinely charming.

For example, I love the Backrooms Wiki. It is clearly a bunch of early teenagers doing their own spin on the SCP format. It is objectively not well written, fails to understand what made the original greentext interesting, etc, because it is made by literal children experimenting with flash fiction for the first time. So many of its entries are The Evil Smiler Who Fucking Gets You. Which rules. I want the backrooms wiki kids to keep writing forever. I remember being at that point in my writing career! I hope these kids continue to write!

But sometimes I mention the backrooms wiki and people say "why are you hating on these kids?" and I struggle to explain that I am not hating, I genuinely love it. Sometimes it feels like people don't believe me! I feel like people have grown so used to kiwifarms behavior that an offhand expression of love for amateurish art is interpreted as malicious hazing. That makes me sad! I wish there were better words for this sort of thing.

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you two are so goddamn weird you deserve the world

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BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) dir. David Lean CAROL (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

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The part where he kills you

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The first phase of the Jenova Lifeclinger boss music is just so good, and I can't stop thinking about it.

When you get Jenova’s theme up top and then Aerith’s theme comes crashing defiantly through it.

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Was YOUR favorite character created after the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in a golden orb as the embodiment of good of in order to fight the evils of the world? No? Didn't think so

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On your Lost screen time list, you have Terry O'Quinn at 693 min. I was wondering how much time of that is specifically Locke and how much is Man in Black? And how much did Man in Black have overall from all actors that portrayed him?

I'd forgotten I made that list for a second haha. I would've made a corresponding list for characters if IMDb still had that capability.

Anyhoo, some stats:

Terry O'Quinn spends 574:15 minutes as Locke and 118:45 minutes as the Man in Black.

The Man in Black's total is 163. As stated above, 118:45 of that is Terry O'Quinn. 18:45 is Titus Welliver. 9:30 is him as a kid and about :15 is him as a baby, in "Across the Sea". 6:30 is the smoke monster. 5:50 is him in Christian's form, 1:30 Alex, and 2:15 Yemi.

And while I'm at it, Locke's total (including younger actors) is 580:15. I think I might add relevant character totals to the IMDb list too.

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Me during the skywheel scene: "Kiss her, you fool!" Me watching a compilation of date scenes and discovering there are multiple versions of some scenes: "...oh shit, for real?!?"

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[ angel of gaia ]

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Really switched up the vibe