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The Respawn Chronicles - Part 2

📚✨ Dive into a thrilling tale where death is just the beginning! Discover Dave's journey through bizarre accidents, mysterious abilities, and a game with fate itself. Can he uncover the secrets of his newfound power? Click to unravel the mystery! #Supern

Click Here: To Read The Respawn Chronicles – Part 1 Opening his eyes, Dave found himself back in bed, the same old alarm blaring loudly beside him. Confused, he sat up, trying to make sense of the bizarre events that had just transpired, but the absurdity left him speechless. With a groan, he silenced the relentless alarm and rolled out of bed, feeling the familiar chill of the wooden floor…

[isloveworthdyingfor]

Siren Song of the Spar

(Major Gabriel Steele) The overhead lights hummed softly, their glow throwing sharp contrasts onto the gym floor. But all they managed to highlight for me were the sapphire sparkles swimming in Nic's eyes. Every time she landed a hit on the bag, her fervor sliced through the dullness of my day like a lighthouse piercing through the fog.

I watched, heart pounding in sync with the rhythmic thuds of her gloves against leather. She moved with a purpose, a force that drew me in repeatedly. It was a familiarity that never waned; each session with her felt as charged as the first, a forbidden rhythm that thrummed through my veins.

"Keep your guard up," I instructed, though she hardly needed reminding. Her dedication was palpable, etched into the lines of concentration that furrowed her brow. I took a step closer, close enough to catch the scent of her determination mixed with the sweet tang of exertion.

"Like this?" she asked, demonstrating a perfect defensive stance before resuming her assault on the bag.

"Exactly like that," I confirmed, keeping my tone steady despite the undercurrents swirling between us. The urge to reach out, to correct her posture with hands that longed to linger, was a tide I fought to resist.

"Good, because I plan to knock some sense into this thing," Nic declared, her laugh a clear challenge to the inanimate opponent before her.

"Wouldn't expect anything less," I replied, echoing the silent promise I made every time I watched her spar: to protect, cherish, and keep the boundaries clear, even when every fiber of my being wanted to blur the lines.

The heavy bag swayed with each impact, its chains creaking under the force of Nic's kicks. Sweat beaded on her brow, and I couldn't help but admire the sheer focus she brought to every movement. She was poetry in motion, a dance of strength and willpower that captivated me beyond reason.

"Rotate your hip more on the next one," I said, my voice steady despite the turmoil inside me. Our proximity was a constant test, a siren call I struggled to ignore.

She paused mid-strike, glancing at me with those oceanic eyes that seemed to see straight through to my core. "Like this?" she asked, executing a kick with flawless precision.

"Exactly," I replied, trying not to dwell on how the thin fabric of her tank top clung to her skin or how her hair, damp with effort, had come loose from its bun to frame her face in golden wisps.

A jolt shot up my arm when my hand brushed hers as I adjusted her wrist. Her skin was warm, alive under my fingertips. I withdrew quickly, masking the unintentional caress as nothing more than necessary guidance.

"Sorry, just making sure you don't strain anything," I mumbled, feeling the redness creeping up my neck.

"No problem, Sir," she breathed out, a hint of something unreadable in her tone. Was it my imagination, or did her gaze linger a fraction longer than necessary?

"Keep the pace, Nic," I urged, stepping back to regain some semblance of control. The echo of our touches lingered like ghosts, haunting the space between us. "Focus on the rhythm," I instructed, even as my own rhythm faltered, betraying her effect on me.

"Always do," she said with a wry smile, resuming her attack on the bag.

I watched a silent lookout, battling the duality of my role. Her trainer, sworn to professionalism; yet a man, undeniably drawn to the enigma that was Esther Nicholette Sullivan.

[eazilaif]

MOVIE: Migration

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[mahashankh]

Captain Miller trailer release of the upcoming Tamil film 2024

Captain Miller: A Pre-Independence Action Spectacle Poised to Electrify Audiences

Drumroll, please! The eagerly awaited Tamil film, Captain Miller, has finally unveiled its trailer, unleashing a torrent of pre-independence action sequences and electrifying audiences across the globe. Starring the ever-charming Dhanush in the titular role, Captain Miller promises a pulsating cinematic experience under the adept direction of Arun Matheswaran. A Renegade Hero in a Turbulent Era: The trailer transports us back to the tumultuous years preceding India's independence, where Captain Miller, a charismatic outlaw, leads a band of unconventional allies through daring heists and thrilling escapades. Dhanush, with his trademark intensity and undeniable screen presence, seems perfectly poised to breathe life into this enigmatic Captain. Beyond Just Action: While the high-octane action sequences are undoubtedly a highlight, the trailer hints at layers beyond mere adrenaline-pumping thrills. We catch glimpses of complex emotions, shifting loyalties, and the weight of historical context woven into the narrative. Director Matheswaran, known for his sharp storytelling skills, promises a film that will not only entertain but also resonate with audiences on a deeper level. A Stellar Supporting Cast: Dhanush is not alone in this cinematic adventure. The film boasts a powerhouse supporting cast, with the likes of Priyanka Arul Mohan, Shiva Rajkumar, Sundeep Kishan, and John Kokken gracing the screen. Each actor brings their own unique energy and talent to the table, ensuring that Captain Miller is a true ensemble spectacle. Music to Set the Pulse Racing: Renowned composer GV Prakash takes the helm of the music department, and judging by the snippets heard in the trailer, we can expect a score that perfectly complements the film's action and drama. Prakash's ability to blend traditional sounds with contemporary sensibilities promises a soundtrack that will be both evocative and exhilarating. Mark Your Calendars: Captain Miller is all set to set cinema screens ablaze on January 12, 2024. With its stellar cast, captivating story, and promises of adrenaline-pumping action, this film has all the ingredients to become a blockbuster event. So, mark your calendars, gather your friends, and prepare to be transported to a bygone era where heroes rise, legends are forged, and Captain Miller reigns supreme. This detailed article delves deeper into the film's highlights, including: - Dhanush's enigmatic portrayal of Captain Miller - The film's pre-independence setting and historical context - The action-packed sequences and thrilling escapades - The stellar supporting cast and their diverse roles - The role of music by GV Prakash in enhancing the cinematic experience - The anticipation surrounding the film's release on January 12, 2024 By focusing on these aspects, you can create a more engaging and informative piece that will leave readers eager to catch Captain Miller on the big screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhWbKP1rKA official trailer of captan miller

Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja, aka Dhanush, a Multifaceted Talent in Tamil Cinema

captain miller poster Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja, better known by his stage name Dhanush, is a Tamil actor, producer, director, lyricist, and playback singer. He is one of the most popular and successful actors in Tamil cinema, having starred in over 40 films. He has won numerous awards for his work, including four National Film Awards, fourteen SIIMA Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South, and a Filmfare Award. Dhanush was born on July 28, 1983, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Kasthuri Raja, is a Tamil film director and producer, and his brother, Selvaraghavan, is also a film director. Dhanush studied hotel management at the Hotel Management College in Chennai, but he dropped out to pursue a career in acting. Dhanush made his acting debut in 2002 with the film Thulluvadho Ilamai, directed by his father. The film was a critical and commercial success, and it launched Dhanush's career. He went on to star in a number of successful films, including Kadhal Kondein (2003), Aadukalam (2011), Polladhavan (2007), and Maaran (2022). Dhanush is known for his versatility and his ability to portray a wide range of characters. He is also known for his dancing skills, and he has won numerous awards for his dance performances. In addition to acting, Dhanush is also a successful producer. He has produced a number of films, including his own films like Asuran (2019) and Karnan (2021). Dhanush is also a talented singer. He has sung for his own films as well as for other films. He has won several awards for his playback singing. Dhanush is a popular and respected figure in Tamil cinema. He is a successful actor, producer, director, lyricist, and playback singer. He is a versatile talent who has made a significant contribution to Tamil cinema. Dhanush's Achievements Dhanush has won numerous awards for his work, including: - Four National Film Awards: - Best Actor for Aadukalam (2011) - Best Actor for Vada Chennai (2018) - Best Actor for Asuran (2019) Best Actor for Karnan (2021) - Fourteen SIIMA Awards: - Best Actor for Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002) - Best Actor for Kadhal Kondein (2003) - Best Actor for Polladhavan (2007) - Best Actor for Aadukalam (2011) - Best Actor for Mayakkam Enna (2012) - Best Actor for Vengaiyil Vaanam (2013) - Best Actor for Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015) - Best Actor for Maari 2 (2018) - Best Actor for Asuran (2019) - Best Actor for Karnan (2021) - Best Actor for The Gray Man (2022) - Seven Filmfare Awards South: - Best Actor – Tamil for Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002) - Best Actor – Tamil for Kadhal Kondein (2003) - Best Actor – Tamil for Polladhavan (2007) - Best Actor – Tamil for Aadukalam (2011) - Best Actor – Tamil for Mayakkam Enna (2012) - Best Actor – Tamil for Maari 2 (2018) - A Filmfare Award: - Best Male Debut for Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002) Dhanush is a true star of Tamil cinema. He is a talented actor, producer, director, lyricist, and playback singer. He is a versatile talent who has made a significant contribution to Tamil cinema. Read the full article

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Guess who just found this gem on YouTube 🥰 So happy to see it here. I remember a few people mentioned they hadn't seen it yet and wanted to check it out. Please check it out, Pedro Pascal and Sophie Thatcher are amazing in this 🥰 Prospect

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Why I loathe CoD Hector

Something I really wanted to write a proper blog on, is Hector. I answered on another blog on this before, and wrote a shorter thing about this before. But I really wanted to write something on its own. Because I will once again iterate: While Hector in the animated series definitely gets to finish out his character arc, he works a lot better as a character than his game counterpart. And that even though the game came out at the time, where Castlevania tried to go more for storytelling.

Yet, there is this thing, and that mostly comes from it still being an old action-centric game... How the need of making the main characters of action games until sometime in the 2010s into the stoic kind kinda made them worse characters.

I said it before: The Castlevania games for the longest part never really were that interested in telling characterdriven stories and focused more on the gameplay. Which is very much fine. But even when they tried to include more story, for the most part they still keep the brutish, stoic protagonist. Even Alucard, despite looking like a beautiful princess, is very much the stoic male protagonist. This is just a thing with action media that was going on for way too long. Sure, even stoic characters could make for good fan interpretation in stuff like fanfics, it often is an issue that the media itself does not want to actually explore the characters emotions.

Or, to make it fairly clear: This has very much to do with this idea of toxic masculinity. A lot of old action media (not only games, but also movies and such) will not allow male action heroes to show emotional vulnerability, because that would be unmasculine in the eyes of the writers. Which then boils the characters down onto the supposedly "masculine" emotions, like anger and the urge for revenge.

And this is kinda where we get to Curse of Darkness.

We have this whole backstory through the manga, that goes into Hector's background and all that. While I will say that here I prefer the animated version, too, I will fully admit that this is just a subjective thing (I like that the animated version draws some clearer cultural aspects into it, while also giving Hector the agency of killing his abusers, rather than having it happen as an accident), because I definitely can see why people would prefer the manga version.

Where this ends, however, is already at the moment when Hector joins Dracula. Yes, I will fully admit that I am not a big fan of game!Dracula in general, though I will not go into the why here. He works as a game villain, I will admit that, though.

No, what I dislike about Hector's story with Dracula is more the: "And he becomes like the best forgemaster. Like he is so amazing and so strong, and did we tell you how amazing he is?" It goes too much into the power fantasy to me. While I get that the game canon heavily drew on this idea of the main conflict between Hector and Isaac being one of jealousy... I will just say, that a conflict of jealousy is actually so much more boring than a conflict of ideals. And the backstory by far had enough going on there to make it a conflict of ideals, as Hector did still - like in the animated version - not like the idea of killing thousands. Which could have been used for a lot of conflict, but... yeah.

I will still say, that for the most part, the backstory works. While I roll my eyes already at everything with Rosaly, because Rosaly is very much the incanation of the trope where this pure hearted girl saves the soul of the corrupted man (I don't know how this trope is called, but it is for sure a trope), it does work so far.

No, where Hector as a game character stops working is... at the game. Or rather in the moment that Rosaly does do the thing that she as the sole female character in this entire fucking story has to do: She dies so that her death can motivate Hector. And that is to me where game Hector as a character does stop working.

They could have given Hector any motivation to face off against Isaac. They had put up more than enough story fragments in the manga that they could have build from. They could have made it that Isaac wanted to go for revenge and before he could do it, Hector tried to go in there to protect the people he had now learned to love. They could have made it that Isaac tried to ressurect Dracula. They could have made it that Isaac tried to continue Dracula's work until Hector decided that he could not let his former friend do this, because Hector now knows better. There could have been several interesting and good motivations.

But no. Instead they went with: "Girl dead. Boy sad. Boy angry. Boy wants revenge." The fuck?! This is just so bad in terms of storytelling. It is just the refrigerated woman trope, in its most lazy iteration.

They could have given Hector an interesting motivation and conflict. But no, instead they went for revenge. Ugh.

But that was not enough for the writers of this game. Ooooooh no. If it was just that, I would still hate it, but I would be fine with it. Because let's face it, a lot of games use the "revenge for loved ones" trope. Sure, this game is not using it in the most creative way, and it could have done a lot better from the backstory that was set up in other media, but... It is fine. This is fine.

What is not fine however is Julia. I hate Julia. I hate everything about her as a concept.

And again, mind you. I absolutely would not have a problem with Julia if she was just "some girl" or just "Isaac's sister". Then Julia would be fine. It would even be fine if Hector caught feelings for her, even though I would once again roll my eyes at this.

No, what makes Julia so offensive is the fact that she looks and sounds like Rosaly. Meaning, that she explicitly, not just implicitly exists to be a replacement for Rosaly. And that just makes it all so, so badly written.

Worst of all: This gets never explained. Julia just is Rosaly's doppelganger. Just because... Well, because the writers of this game wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They wanted to motivate Hector by revenge for a dead girl, but also wanted to have him end with the girl. And it is just... misogynic writing. I am sorry.

It portrays women as "things" that can be easily replaced. And I hate this so, so much. It is the reason why, even though CoD might not be the worst game in the series, it is by far the one I loathe the most.

And they could have so easily done it differently. Either by not motivating Hector through Revenge in the first place, or by just making Julia a different person from Rosaly. Make her strikingly different and then have Hector fall for Julia. That would have been fine. Just this: "I broke one doll, but I will just get a replacement" thing that game has going is... horrible.

And yes, additionally I will say that another reason why I do prefer the animated version of Hector is, that he is not the stoic kind of character, but he is actually fairly vulnerable. He is a bit of an idiot who easily fall for people. He definitely does not get to have his power fantasy. But it is exactly this that I like. Because it is a story we usually do not get with male characters.

The story of Hector in the animated series is very much a story that would have usually been given to a female character. And I adore this fact. I adore how they switched the gender stereotypes around for this.

Yes, I am well aware that some fans of the games hated this, too. But I honestly have to say: Look, the game characters might have some minor differences, but all in all they all fall under the stereotype of the stoic action protagonist. Yeah, the series needed to switch this around a bit, because it would have gotten boring otherwise.

And frankly. I am sooooo sick of protagonists being all stoic all the time. Give us some variety. It won't kill these characters to smile from time to time... Or, you know, be vunerable.

[trekmupf]

a.k.a. the crew is drunk on a space virus 🤺😭🎤

Pro:

Gotta love how Joe shits all over every basic safety regulation in the beginning. Not only taking off the glove, no, touching his own face, touching a bunch of stuff, then putting the glove back on. Legend.

Spock in his tight black shirt; also first appearance of McCoys short-sleeve satin shirt

Nurse Chapel! Majel Barrett, my love!

Interpersonal relationships of people beyond the trio

Sulu gets some three dimensional character design with many interests and relationships. Also Sulu's rapier!

Spocks entire emotional outburst with the iconic "I am in control of my emotions" line (more see end of post)

Everybody slowly loosing their minds bc of Rileys bad singing McCoy like I COULD vaccinate the captain through his shirt... but I could also *rip sounds*

also McCoy is just good at his job

Scotty being a damn fine engineer, starting the whole engineer superpower trend (O'Brien is very grateful)

The infected crewmembers slowly losing their minds while the planet disintegrates builds up the tension very well until the climactic ending and balances silly whimsy with just enough seriousness and danger

Just a characterdriven episode that highlights our crew

First time of mind altering substances trope!

Also first time time travel is happening (even though it's just...there. In the end)

Look at him, scratching his nose and starting chaos Con: We didn't have one. We love this episode. Counter: Kirks shirt rips again (honorary Sulu chest!) Meme: Sulu with the sowerd, Spock crying,

Quote: "I'll protect you fair maiden" "Sorry, neither" Moment: Spocks entire breakdown. The duality of his heritage, seeing he has actual emotions but si tormented that he can never show them. Even though provoked by the illness its heartbreaking and changes a lot of his scenes Summary: Great episode that takes a fun and silly premise, keeps it light with some and more serious with other characters, gives them all more depth and shows our crew being competent!

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[idrawprettyboys]

Chapter 23 of Empath is finally done!

[haveacupofjohanny]

Unveiling the Past: A Story of Redemption, Resilience, and the Devil Within

#newpodcastepisode Find out all about "The Devil that Haunts Them" trilogy 📚✨ Join Joa on a journey through emotional depths and astrological intrigue as Isabella Ramirez seeks balance and redemption. #BookSeries #CharacterDriven #AstrologyInFiction

Have you ever felt haunted by a past that refuses to stay buried? Join Joa on a gripping journey through “The Devil that Haunts Them,” a trilogy that grew from the seeds of a single manuscript. This season, I lay bare the transformation of “The Devil that Haunts Me” into a character-driven saga, revealing how astrology and emotional depth intertwine to create unforgettable narratives. As I did in…

[jemmayoung]

Just some relationship drama from Children of Eldair. You can pre-order book three along with the first two books through the kickstarter today! Link is in my bio. #Eldair #kickstarter #characterdriven #relationships #comics #drama https://www.instagram.com/p/BwCwB5llwHS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1revaempjwe94

[shychloe]

Game of Mass Destruction (Dystopian Sci-Fi) - Prologue (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/Vv637tfGRV Since bitterly divorcing her husband thirty years ago, former pop-star, Sia Bucks creates the worldwide sensation - Game of Mass Destruction, where twenty nominated contestants are pitted into pairs and set the task of destroying a thousand flesh-eating robots for a chance to win two billion dollars. Her morals are put to the ultimate test when her former bandmate and granddaughter are in the upcoming series. For fans of Battle Royale and Hunger Games.

[eazilaif]

MOVIE: The Beekeeper

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[dracereads]

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden; 5 out of 5 Stars My pick for my favorite book I read in 2021! I definitely have several tiktoks of me crying about the ending of this book, but it was really good and I enjoyed it.

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[blue-egg-adventures]

What are you reading right now? Or have read recently? Tonight I just started reading “When Twilight Breaks” by Sarah Sundin and I’m already on chapter seven. I can’t wait to read more tomorrow! 🤓 📚 #itsablueegglife #whentwilightbreaks #histfic #historicalfiction #wwiinovel #wwiifiction #whatareyoureading #whatareyoureadingtoday #christianfiction #christianfictionbooks #characterdriven #tootiredtohashtag https://www.instagram.com/p/CL8sgkqLthU/?igshid=13ya16vmrwmnd