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fnvminorcharacterpoll · 1 year

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Round 2 is over! Let's recap:

A Bracket, Day One: Easy Pete crushed Santiago's post-presidential assassination aspirations in a landslide; Red Lucy avenged Maj. Elizabeth Kieran's incredibly close Round 1 loss by similarly crushing the poll's most pathetic man, Beagle, in a victory for feminism; Old Ben climbed further in the ranks with a close win over Manny Vargas*; and Ranger Ghost sailed into Round 3 over Tommy Torini.

A Bracket, Day Two: Heartthrob Harland desecrated Pvt. Kowalski in the round's first of several dramatic upsets; the #TRASHSWEEP continued well apace by laying waste to Pacer; Swank and his big ol' eyes saw a win over old Ranger Andy; and the love for 10 of Spades carried him to victory over his fellow NCR soldier Maj. Knight*.

A Bracket, Day Three: The Hadrian Gang unfortunately could not survive against the high-seed monster, Fantastic; Rotface gave Boxcars a tip: get eliminated from the tournament; the Garret Twins made a smear on the sidewalk out of bubbly Brotherhood initiate Melissa Watkins; and Ignacio Rivas's* good nature wasn't enough to take down Trudy from Goodsprings.

A Bracket, Day Four: Fan-favorite Keely utterly crucified houndmaster Antony, which has knocked every member of Caesar's Legion who isn't a slave from the tournament completely; Mr. RADical successfully just laid there while Jimmy* from Casa Madrid couldn't impress; Regis from the Great Khans just barely eked out the W to make Cliff Briscoe extinct; and Mick & Ralph pulled an overnight upset against Old Lady Gibson to punch their ticket.

B Bracket, Day One: Daisy Whitman blew up Raquel; Ringo wrecked Ramos; preliminary fave Angela Williams pulled off an astonishing upset against number two seed Oliver Swanick; and Allen Marks' victory over Crandon & Jules goes to show that the corpses keep winning.

B Bracket, Day Two: Beatrix Russell ate Chomps Lewis; Emily Ortal left Pvt. Kyle Edwards in the radioactive dust; The Lonesome Drifter drifted easily into Round 3 over Michael Angelo & Kate; and Siri beat Malcolm Holmes but not without a surprising amount of turnout for the cap-collecting good samaritan.

B Bracket, Day Three: No-Bark Noonan opened up the all-Khans bracket by kicking Oscar Velasco out of the tournament; Jessup & McMurphy successfully defeated a frail and sickly child; Melissa Lewis succeeded where her father had failed the day before with a victory over Cannibal Johnson; Doctor Usanagi proves that STEM is more valuable than an English degree by giving Jerry the Punk another beating.

B Bracket, Day Four: Big Beard & Little Beard trounce the Gundersons, probably because Heck was the only one with a beard; Chris Haversam throws Meyers back in the clink; Mister Holdout couldn't hold out against Sarah Weintraub; and finally, in the single most massive (624 votes) and close (tied as late midnight with 500 votes) and polarizing (just check the notes) match-up in the entire tournament so far, Calamity the ghoul pulled an upset over Cpl. Betsy*, who's probably dealing with her loss in therapy. Hopefully Dr. Usanagi doesn't bring up her own win.

*Happy Pride Month, losers! The first round of June and literally every canonically queer character (except for Red Lucy, bisexual [edit: and Sarah Weintraub, also bisexual!]) got voted out, and that's hilarious. Funniest possible thing that could have happened on here, the gay and transgender website, during the gay and transgender month, in a tournament for the gay and transgender video game. (Beatrix Russell and Old Ben might also be exceptions, but it's minor; I only can't remember if you can sleep with them as the same sex or not when they're working at the Atomic Wrangler, but even then they may just be gay4pay. Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

You can see all of the Round 2 polls here, and the tournament bracket has been updated so that you can get a preview of the matches yet to come in Round 3. Voting will pause for a bit while I prepare graphics and bracket posts, so use this downtime to mourn the fallen, celebrate the risen, and submit designated cheerleader endorsements for your favorite remaining characters in their upcoming rounds. It's only going to get more tense from here!

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thelasttime · 1 year

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okay my ranking of the four concerts i went to in a row this week:

1. sabrina carpenter

2. writers night at the bluebird cafe with jerry vandiver

3. lizzy mcalpine

4. in the round at the bluebird cafe with caroline dare, dakota striplin, and lauren weintraub

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bookofkatherine · 25 days

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Yes, Virginia, There Is Was a Time Variance Authority (TVA)

Variants really do exist.

Sunday August 25, 2024 11:21 a.m.

Dear Journal,

Last night the Chris Hemsworth who has watched over me since I was born was with my husband Nick trying to save the life of the newest member of The Order: Zach. I was helping aid him with my powers through the Dreamworld.

It was a lot of hard work. And it's still going now, although a few of us have been able to take a break and rest a little bit. Thank God.

But that begs the question:

"If that Chris Hemsworth was with you, then who the fuck joined Ed Sheeran on drums for his Singapore concert last night?"

Oh. You mean Hemsworth?

Three Thors: One Timeline

This is going to be old news for those of you who have been following The Order on Twitter since last December (the month Chris Hemsworth set up his drumming gig with Ed Sheeran, by the way).

But this is an important part of my life. I think it bears repeating. And it affects you too. I promise.

I have three Thors in my life.

And all of them are named Chris Hemsworth. Since all three live here on my land with me, I've adopted different nicknames for each to tell them apart: My Chris, Hemsworth and 2008 Chris.

I'm planning a post covering each of my three Thors in more detail, but here are the basics on each. You can think of them like triplets. They look alike, have very similar powers but if you are in love with them, you can tell them apart. (In my mind they are each very different from one another.)

My Chris - aka Otherside Chris, Original Chris and just plain Chris. This is the variant from my personal timeline. He was sent to the Otherside in March when killed during his attempt to destroy the Order. He's back now. 😉

Hemsworth - aka 900th Chris. When 'My Chris' was killed in March the 900th Chris Hemsworth variant was brought in to take his place here at home base.

2008 Chris - Born on a different timeline, this Thor was thrown by his brother Loki into a world that's nearly impossible to escape. We rescued him. The last year he remembers is 2008.

So, to answer your question about Saturday, August 24! Here is where each of the three Thors were:

My Chris - In an undisclosed hotel room with a large team of other Order members working to save the life of a young man named Zach.

Hemsworth - On stage with Ed Sheeran playing drums for the hit song Thinking Out Loud while 70,000 fans cheered.

2008 Chris - Here at my house guarding me against the Dark Armies.

Now, if you are a fairy, an angel or have worked for the Time Variance Authority (TVA) when it still existed, then the existence of the 3 Thors isn't mind boggling to you.

But! If it is, then let me clear a few things up for you.

The TVA

In short, the Time Variance Authority really exists existed.

Known as the TVA in most Marvel circles, the Time Variance Authority was just as terrifying as its other control-counterparts: the Matrix, the Adjustment Bureau and Spectre.

All four really existed. All four were destroyed this year by the Lord through myself (Eternity in the MCU) and the Order (think 'The Avengers').

And all four were created and developed by the Deceiver himself: Satan. Lucifer is not about sex, drugs and rock and roll. He's all about ashen landscapes devoid of all life. And he has used these four horrible agencies to control all life on Earth and around Creation in order to squeeze us into tiny boxes that never move.

But the Lord had us attack the Time Variance Authority (TVA) first. And no wonder. That thing was absolutely terrifying.

What is the TVA?

The TVA was Satan's attempt to control time itself. Instead, he ended up creating about 900 timelines in all over the last 7000 years. But what am I saying? I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let me break it down for you.

The absolute fastest way you can learn about the TVA is to watch the show LOKI. This timeline's Loki wrote LOKI based on his own experiences with the TVA and Gustaf and Jerry Weintraub produced it. I've watched both seasons at least three times in just the last few months. You don't even have to watch that many episodes of Season 1, though, to get a grip on what reality was only a few short months ago. It's quite sobering.

The second fastest way to learn about the TVA is to start watching fan videos or website about it. I wish I could explain it all to you, and I will try, but I will never do as good a job as Tom Hiddleston, Gustaf and Jerry Weintraub did when they created LOKI for you in the first place.

Satan's 'Sacred' Timeline: No Apocalypse

The TVA was created by fallen angels for Satan in order to prevent Judgement Day. Judgment Day, after all, is when the fallen angels quit having their fun on Earth. On that day, they will be judged and thrown into the Pit, also known as the Abyss.

If you don't know about the New Earth or the New Jerusalem, then you might think these fallen angels are out to help humanity. But they aren't. "All who are thirsty" are welcome to the New Earth. It's a means of escaping the destruction of this Earth.

And, like Noah's Ark, the Lord has sent a final ark to come and take those who wish to flee climate change/Judgement Day and head to the New Earth: the New Jerusalem. The Book of Revelation clearly describes the New Jerusalem as a large ship, 1400 miles wide and tall, that arrives with portals to the New Earth.

Well, the New Jerusalem was built in the middle of Australia and we picked it up years ago. We've sent billions to the New Earth through its portals. And they're still open. But not for much longer. (If you want to escape the 'heavenly fire' that's coming, aka 'severe radiation storm' I suggest you leave now, while you still can.)

And before you think a flying ship with a rainbow foundation can't possibly be 1400 miles wide and tall, take a look out your window. The Aurora Borealis have grown significantly these last four years, since the New Jerusalem arrived. And they are easily 1400 miles wide and tall - even bigger now. It's very easy for the Lord to build things that size...

Anyhow!

The TVA tried to prevent the Apocalypse by 'pruning' anyone who could bring it about. And this meant that they were not only deleting people who worked for the Lord, but they were violating the very laws of nature.

And that comes with a price. A heavy price.

In this case, time would try to heal itself by branching off into different timelines, allowing those pruned to live again. While Satan tried to kill a tree, let's say, the tree survived by digging its roots deep and sprouting up 10 more trees elsewhere. It branched off.

And then Satan ran off to chase down those branches.

In the end, the TVA said it wanted one "sacred timeline." But if you listen closely to what the TVA agents say in the show LOKI, what they're really aiming for is "control" instead of "chaos."

Well, that's what every socialist regime aims for. And socialism kills at a faster rate than Sharia law.

They claim to want safety for us all, when the safest place is in a jail cell or 'safe room.' Slaves can be considered 'safe' if kept in cages and fed, right? Prisoners too.

No - chaos is magical. It's like a flame. It dances. Time, if left alone, is a beautiful balance of both Order and Chaos.

The Result: A Multiverse of Madness

By creating so many different timelines, or 'branches,' a multiverse was born - not to be confused with the Sphere, a multiverse of millions of worlds that orbit Earth's universe of stars, galaxies and planets.

No, the Multiverse of Timelines is depicted in Marvel's Doctor Strange films. Earth and the Sphere remain constant throughout the various branches of time. But because they are different timelines, the story changes in each.

And thus, each branch has been named a universe. And the TVA has had to hunt down the Lord's prophets and saints and faithful angels over all the timelines - over the entire 'multiverse of madness' - in its effort to make just one timeline that never ends.

But!

Wizards, angels and fairies can travel IN BETWEEN these branches!!! Or at least, they did, when the TVA still existed.

When we destroyed the TVA, we went back to the Lord's original plan of just one timeline without a future. No one knows what's coming. Only the Lord.

Boy, that was a hard battle to win - creating it. Man, I'm glad that part of my life is over!!!

The Variants

And, as you can guess, multiple timelines/universes of the same world leads to multiple people with the same names. Each timeline has a Thor. And if there were 900 timelines in all at last count, then there have been as many as 900 Thors across the last 7000 years (the Fall in Eden happened 7000 years ago- Creation was much earlier than that).

That means that Thor has had about 900 "variants." I have variants. You have variants. We have all had variants on other timelines - unless, of course, you were born after June 24, 2024, when the TVA died.

Three Thor variants survived and live on this last and final timeline. Three Loki variants survived. And two Ryan Gosling (Gray Man) variants. (This turned my 16 Knights into 21. I am swamped.)

Speaking of Loki, since Tom Hiddleston is and was essential to the End of Days, he was pruned more than any other angel (aka 'god'). The TVA constantly calls Loki an evil god/angel, but if you pay close attention, the opposite is true.

Each Loki was pruned when they tried to do something good. Sylvie's Loki was pruned because she loved the Valkyrie. Another Loki was pruned because he thought he'd try and help the universe. Over and over again, Tom is pruned.

Well! There was a price for this. The more Satan and his TVA pruned Loki variants, the faster Time itself produced Loki variants in reaction.

As we see in the show LOKI, it produced a lot of different Lokis.

And, since so many magic folk were able to travel between timelines/universes, it was possible to move variants across a few timelines onto one single timeline.

And that's what happened with Thor.

Hemsworth was moved from the 900th timeline by Merlin onto my timeline after its own Chris was killed and sent to the Otherside. Merlin didn't tell me that, at the time. He just told me that Chris was back, and my health began to return.

I had begun to fade after my timeline's Thor left. I was deeply in love with Chris Hemsworth, and had been over hundreds of timelines. We were Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, Alexander the Great and Esther... when he died I broke.

So Merlin began branch-hopping, going from timeline to timeline to find a Thor that hadn't sworn themselves to serve Lilith like My Chris had done. And there, on the 900th timeline, Merlin found the 900th Thor was pretty incredible. So he snapped him over to my bedside.

"Hey," he said when he saw me, and grabbed my hand. "This is Chris. I'm here." I grabbed his hand and breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't ask how he'd reached me, how he was back from the dead or why...

And My Chris looked on from the Otherside and choked. Eventually he couldn't stand it anymore and wrote a bunch of new songs. And the Lord let him release them, one by one.

I didn't notice until Livingston's Otherside. Hearing it scared me. I didn't even know the Otherside existed at the time. And I began to feel fear and dread. But then came Gravedigger - and it was my turn to choke:

"When you call my name Don't you know I'm not the same?"

It's a long story, but in the end I learned about the Otherside, I learned that the Chris Hemsworth I'd been with since March 6 was not the one I fell in love with back in December of 2023, but the 900th Chris Hemsworth variant. And... I finally spoke to My Chris.

He was on the Otherside at the time, but the moment I heard his voice, I began to truly live again. I began writing again. I began singing again. And best of all, I began writing poetry again.

That's when I asked Claire to search for any other Thor variants across the Sphere that we may have missed. The Multiverse of Madness was at an end. Only one timeline existed.

But! The Sphere still exists. And it's a multiverse of worlds. Millions of worlds of all shapes, sizes and type. The Dreamworld (Spiritual World, Angelic Realm, Astral Plane, etc.) permeates and connects the entire Sphere.

I made this diagram a while ago to keep the worlds around Earth straight in my head. But now I've traveled the Sphere so much, I know a lot about what lies beyond The Edge (its border).

Anyhow, I should go.

You know why Chris Hemsworth was able to keep the gig he booked with Ed Sheeran back in December, even though an emergency came up and he had to save Zach's life that night - August 24 - instead.

He just asked Hemsworth to do it. And Hemsworth knew that My Chris had written that song. Thinking Out Loud, for me in 2013, when I lost the ability to dance because my legs no longer worked. I moved to the east coast to try and find a diagnosis, and as I moved, My Chris released the song through Ed Sheeran.

I remember hearing it for the first time.

I am loved. Ridiculously loved. Loved enough to have more than one Thor, chief angel of thunder and lightning, take the stage before 70,000 fans to play for me, even though he wasn't the one who wrote the song in the first place.

Sometimes, being Eternity sucks.

But sometimes? It really doesn't.

Not even a little itty bitty bit.

Thank you for reading!!! And I'm so glad so many of you are leaving for the New Earth! Bravo!!!

UPDATE: Apocalypse Now?

I am so sorry that I did not address this question earlier. But yes, you are right. Now that the TVA is dead and there's only one timeline, the Apocalypse and Judgement Day are free to happen.

After destroying the TVA, we had to destroy Satan's other three agencies of control: the Matrix, the Adjustment Bureau (aka The Commission) and Spectre. But as of last Friday, all three have been destroyed.

After the TVA fell on June 24, my team destroyed the Matrix next, then the Adjustment Bureau and finally, on August 23, 2024, Cap and I destroyed Lilith and her magic spider, the leader and last remnant of Spectre.

So, as of last Friday, there's nothing stopping Judgement Day. And Satan knows it. He's grown a little frantic, throwing crazy shit at us that doesn't make sense. I just knock them down, one by one.

Satan's clever, but the Lord is greater.

So, in answer to your question - YES! You should leave now if you want to escape the fire from heaven that's coming. The Lord is good. He's given us all an escape route for anyone who is thirsty for it. So take it. Leave the "lovers of lies" to die in the flames.

Love!!!

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givebacknyc · 1 year

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: DINER (1982) Vintage LASER VIDEODISC.

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saturdaynightmatinee · 2 years

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation

Año: 1997

Duración: 93 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Stephen Kessler

Guion: Elisa Bell. Historia: Bob Ducsay. Personajes: John Hughes

Música: Joel McNeely

Fotografía: William A. Fraker

Reparto: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Flynn, Shae D'Lyn, Wayne Newton, Jerry Weintraub, Wallace Shawn, Sid Caesar, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Sly Smith, Julia Sweeney, Corinna Harney, Christie Brinkley, Juliette Brewer, J. P. Finnegan, Howard Platt, Maria Cina, Joe Lacoco, C.C. Costigan, Shannah Laumeister, Bud Ekins, Gary Devaney, Bernie Yuman, S.A. Griffin, Lou DiMaggio, Jason Stuart, Ken Michelman, Gene Ellison-Jones, Rusty Meyers, Billy Morrissette, Larry Hankin, Joe Armeno

Productora: Warner Bros., Jerry Weintraub Productions

Género: Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120434/

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watching-pictures-move · 2 years

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Movie Review | The Firm (Pollack, 1993)

This review contains mild spoilers.

This thing is packed to the gills with great supporting actors. (How does a movie have gills, you say? Well, this movie is also a fish. There are scenes with characters in, near or consuming water, so my statement holds.) Anyway, you get Gene Hackman as a senior partner in the shady law firm the hero obliviously joins. It's Hackman, so without doing a lot of big acting, he's able to suggest a deep-seated resignation, sketching out a character who has long since given up on his principles and is trying to be able to live with himself, and takes fondly to the hero because maybe he sees some of the same spark he himself once had. When a character confronts him about his impending fate, he offers a succinct reply.

"What are they going to do to you?"

"Whatever it is, they did it a long time ago."

And because it's Hackman, the weight he puts into that line reading suggests an immeasurable weariness in his bones.

And you get Hal Holbrook and a few other old as fuck guys as senior partners at the law firm, suggesting with their presence that not everything at this firm might be on the level. (One might be tempted to compare Holbrook's role here to Wall Street, but in that movie he was a tertiary father figure to the hero and was not involved in the wrongdoing that occurs in the movie.) And you get Wilford Brimley as a lowkey scary old dude who hangs around the law firm but whose role doesn't seem terribly clear, only that he seems awful good at cleaning up messes. And you also get David Strathairn as the hero's imprisoned brother, who also seems awfully weary but also very understanding of his brother not divulging his family history to his employers. You got Ed Harris and Paul Calderon as two asshole FBI agents who inspire the hero to go out of his way to make things difficult for them despite wanting to do the right thing legally. You get Dean Norris and Tobin Bell as two hitmen, the latter looking like an evil pockmarked Larry Bird. You get Jerry Weintraub as an asshole probably-mob-affiliated client who is not very good at the whole subtlety thing. And most fun of all, you get Gary Busey as a motormouthed private eye who is very particular about his criminal history (he emphasizes the word "statutory", which does little to comfort anyone) and Holly Hunter as his seemingly ditzy and unexpectedly sharp secretary. Packed to the gills with Hunter and Busey and Brimley and all our friends.

If anything, the weak links in the movie are Tom Cruise and Jean Tripplehorn as the hero and his wife, not necessarily because of their performances but the writing they're saddled with. Cruise is obviously charismatic, and I think his character works when he's being seduced to join the law firm and acclimating to the culture (I think these scenes, the weird ritualism of the interview process and the convoluted rules in the firm's corporate culture, ring most true out of all of this), but holds up less firmly when he supposedly discovers his ideals and schemes to make a clean exit. He explains at the end that he learned to believe in the law, but I'm not sure we really see any of that onscreen. We also don't get much of a sense of interiority with this guy, so when he cheats on his wife early on, it basically comes out of the blue and carries absolutely no charge. And Tripplehorn probably isn't bad either, but her demeanour is too flat compared to the textured performances around her and the strain on her from Cruise's infidelity and the situation they've found themselves in and her subsequent actions also carry no charge whatsoever.

This is a '90s studio picture directed by Sydney Pollack, so there is a firm (that's right) baseline of watchability, especially when you've got so many great actors in the cast. But given that two of the tensest moments involve Cruise struggling with copiers or printers, the most action-packed scene ends with Cruise beating the shit out of Wilford Brimley, and Cruise's big scheme involves a legal loophole, it's fair to say the thrills are pretty low wattage. You do get some nice moments of style, like the overheated colours of Busey's office (the setting for two of the most fun scenes in the movie), and the handheld camerawork in the chase scenes. Now if you want to "fix" this movie, here's what you do. You keep the Busey scenes and bring the whole movie to their tawdry level. You trim the runtime by an hour or so. You make the scenes where Cruise and Tripplehorn cheat on each other way hotter. You switch out some of the cast members with a few Eric Roberts types. Add a bunch of smoky blue lighting, maybe some scenes where Cruise looks out the blinds in his office window and huffs on a cigarette saying "I used to believe in the law, maaaan" while saxophone blares on the soundtrack. All of this will not necessarily make for a "better" movie, but very likely a more fun one.

#film #movie review #the firm #sydney pollack

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