Silly lil man🩷 (also can I mention about the fact that if Sylvia were to lose to him, there's a possibility that he'll end up being wander's best friend instead? Not really, but like- alternatively speaking?)
Exciting times is brewing at Iris Broadway, Gurugram this Independence Day!
Visit on 12th, 13th & 15th August and participate in the fun filled activities and enjoy live music, violin performance, dance, kid’s competition and much more.
12th Aug : Live music by Abhishek Ranjan
13th Aug : Anchor activity and Violinist
15th Aug : Drawing competition, Thematic dance, Tattoo artist & Kids activity
Exciting times is brewing at Iris Broadway, Gurugram this Independence Day!
Visit on 12th, 13th & 15th August and participate in the fun filled activities and enjoy live music, violin performance, dance, kid’s competition and much more.
12th Aug : Live music by Abhishek Ranjan
13th Aug : Anchor activity and Violinist
15th Aug : Drawing competition, Thematic dance, Tattoo artist & Kids activity
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of
The New York Times Book Review.
NYT Article.
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Q: How many of the 100 have you read?
Q: Which ones did you love/hate?
Q: What's missing?
Here's the full list.
100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith
98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth
90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
89. The Return, Hisham Matar
88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight
85. Pastoralia, George Saunders
84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat
82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor
81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan
80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
78. Septology, Jon Fosse
77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro
72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich
71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen
70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones
69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon
66. We the Animals, Justin Torres
65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
62. 10:04, Ben Lerner
61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon
59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
58. Stay True, Hua Hsu
57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
54. Tenth of December, George Saunders
53. Runaway, Alice Munro
52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
50. Trust, Hernan Diaz
49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang
48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
43. Postwar, Tony Judt
42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano
37. The Years, Annie Ernaux
36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine
33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26. Atonement, Ian McEwan
25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
24. The Overstory, Richard Powers
23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond
20. Erasure, Percival Everett
19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty
16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
14. Outline, Rachel Cusk
13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
6. 2666, Roberto Bolano
5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones
3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
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Grade A
11. The Killer
12. Beau Is Afraid
13. Dream Scenario
14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
15. Godzilla Minus One
16. American Fiction
17. They Cloned Tyrone
18. Evil Dead Rise
19. Eileen
20. The Artifice Girl
21. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
22. Talk to Me
23. Reality
24. Leave the World Behind
25. A Thousand and One
26. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
27. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
28. Theater Camp
29. Carmen
30. Merry Little Batman
31. Priscilla
32. Society of the Snow
33. Infinity Pool
34. Enys Men
35. Sanctuary
36. Rye Lane
37. Skinamarink
38. Monster
39. Anatomy of a Fall
40. Landscape with Invisible Hand
41. Reptile
42. Sisu
43. Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
44. No One Will Save You
45. Tetris
46. May December
47. The Zone of Interest
48. V/H/S/85
49. Dumb Money
50. El Conde
51. Arnold
52. Maestro
53. Napoleon
54. 20 Days in Mariupol
55. Influencer
56. The Creator
57. Origin
58. Thanksgiving
59. Next Goal Wins
60. The Boy and the Heron
61. Bottoms
62. Wonka
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Grade B
63. God Is a Bullet
64. No Hard Feelings
65. Joy Ride
66. Fair Play
67. Cocaine Bear
68. NYAD
69. Asteroid City
70. Nowhere
71. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
72. Divinity
73. The Equalizer 3
74. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
75. Venus
76. Butcher’s Crossing
77. Somewhere in Queens
78. The Persian Version
79. Boston Strangler
80. Polite Society
81. Miguel Wants to Fight
82. The Color Purple
83. The Royal Hotel
84. Saw X
85. All of Us Strangers
86. Fallen Leaves
87. Ferrari
88. Elemental
89. Peter Pan & Wendy
90. Renfield
91. Cat Person
92. Scream VI
93. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
94. BS High
95. Blue Beetle
96. Huesera: The Bone Woman
97. When Evil Lurks
98. Dark Harvest
99. A Good Person
100. Final Cut
101. Knock at the Cabin
102. Quiz Lady
103. Leo
104. Air
105. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
106. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
107. John Wick: Chapter 4
108. Beaten to Death
109. The Wrath of Becky
110. Passages
111. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
112. Gran Turismo
113. 65
114. Sick
115. Sister Death
116. The Blackening
117. Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
118. Flamin’ Hot
119. Nimona
120. Cobweb
121. Totally Killer
122. What’s Love Got to Do with It?
123. Sharper
124. Unseen
125. Dunki
126. Bird Box Barcelona
127. The Marvels
128. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Grade C
129. Wildflower
130. Freelance
131. M3GAN
132. Strays
133. Sympathy for the Devil
134. Creed III
135. Chevalier
136. The Marsh King’s Daughter
137. A Haunting in Venice
138. The Little Mermaid
139. Silent Night
140. Master Gardener
141. The Flash
142. Fast X
143. The Pope’s Exorcist
144. Saltburn
145. Kandahar
146. Stand
147. Plane
148. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
149. Fingernails
150. Quicksand
151. Fool’s Paradise
152. Migration
153. Rustin
154. The Covenant
155. Good Burger 2
156. The Pod Generation
157. Alice, Darling
158. Insidious: The Red Door
159. Missing
160. Shotgun Wedding
161. You Hurt My Feelings
162. The Boogeyman
163. Showing Up
164. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
165. Champions
166. Consecration
167. The Nun II
168. Biosphere
169. House Party
170. The Exorcist: Believer
171. Big George Foreman
172. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
173. Children of the Corn
174. The Beanie Bubble
175. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Grade F
176. Anyone But You
177. Marlowe
178. Paint
179. Extraction 2
180. It Lives Inside
181. Deliver Us
182. Trolls Band Together
183. Finestkind
184. Corner Office
185. Wish
186. Prisoner’s Daughter
187. Pain Hustlers
188. Foe
189. The Mother
190. Old Dads
191. Ghosted
192. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
193. Haunted Mansion
194. Mafia Mamma
195. Five Nights at Freddy’s
196. The Machine
197. Justice League: Warworld
198. We Have a Ghost
199. What Comes Around
200. Legion of Super-Heroes
201. The Boys in the Boat
202. Attachment
203. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
204. About My Father
205. You People
206. Meg 2: The Trench
207. Pathaan
208. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
209. Assassin
210. Dalíland
211. Vacation Friends 2
Bottom 10
212. Sound of Freedom
213. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
214. When You Finish Saving The World
215. Heart of Stone
216. Family Switch
217. Expend4bles
218. Sweetwater
219. Hypnotic
220. 80 for Brady
221. Spinning Gold
a cherished headcanon I keep coming back to is that Eddie is very much invested in the school basketball team right up until the graduating class of ‘85 leaves. By an incredible series of mental gymnastics, he tries to convince himself that this has nothing to do with Steve Harrington’s presence on the team.
(And maybe Eddie avoiding the championship game of ‘86 in the near future will have more to do with Jason Carver being on the team, but that’s a sadder story for another time.)
The thing Eddie can easily admit he loves about the bigger games is the fleeting anonymity: while he’s got notoriety in Hawkins High, as soon as there’s a rival school involved he can blend into the crowd for a couple hours, lost in the roar of support.
It’s nearing the end of just such a tournament game when the ball accidentally goes flying into the crowd. Eddie’s reflexes kick in and he manages to catch it before it can take out the back row of the marching band.
The clock’s been stopped for a timeout—a kid on the rival team is injured—so more eyes are drawn to Eddie than normal as they find where the ball ended up. He feels acutely like a spotlight’s on him—holds the ball to his chest almost like he’s a part of the game himself.
A whistle cuts across the court. Steve Harrington.
He’s looking right at Eddie, raising his hands for the ball.
He has more than enough time to say something, some jeer that would well and truly break the spell of anonymity. But Eddie knows underneath the knee jerk worry that it’s not Steve’s style; it’s more the kind of thing Billy Hargrove and his ilk would do, and he’d thankfully been benched at halftime.
Eddie inhales then throws the ball, praying that he doesn’t end up smacking Steve in the face.
He doesn’t, thank God; Steve catches the ball smoothly, manages a thumbs up in thanks before the spotlight shifts back onto the game.
Eddie quietly sighs in relief, loses himself in cheering again.
They don’t win, but it’s still a good game. It’s like Eddie’s reasoning for campaigns: not everything needs to be an all-out victory for it to be entertaining.
The parking lot is a nightmare so he contents himself with waiting it out by his van while the worst of the crowds clear. It’s only when he hears a car door opening and closing nearby that he realises Steve is parked right next to him. Of course, of course he—
“Good catch back there, Munson,” Steve says, tossing his gym bag into his car. He notices something on one of the seats—Eddie can’t tell what it is, but he hears Steve mutter under his breath in benign exasperation, something about, “Dickheads, I keep telling them not to…”
“Yeah, thanks. All my years of training finally paid off.”
Steve makes a face at the build up of cars, chatting parents leaning out of their windows. “You could’ve been on the sub-team.”
“Kinda resent that you don’t think I’m star player material, Harrington.”
There’s the beginnings of a grin on Steve’s face. He has no right looking that smug for someone who’s just lost a game, Eddie thinks.
“Dude, I can hear you. You’re loud.”
Eddie wills his face not to flush. “You’ve got no proof.”
“Nah, just firsthand experience.”
“What, do you have ears like a bat?”
“Nope. Don’t need that to pick you out.” Steve chuckles to himself as he gets in the car, sits side-on to face Eddie as he speaks. “You’re worse than Tammy Thompson’s singing.”
“Uncalled for,” Eddie says, firmly locking away the part of his brain that’s screaming in embarrassment, because if he’s unable to fire off a comeback, he’ll actually never recover; he might as well go and tell Higgins that next year is already a wash, because he has to go and live in the woods—
“Hey, c’mon Munson, I didn’t say it was bad.”
“You implied it,” Eddie says, totally overselling the entire thing, like he’s been greviously wounded.
It works; Steve laughs, shakes his head.
“I didn’t,” he insists as he reverses out of his space. “I just meant it’s… distinctive.”
“Wow. Thank you.”
“That’s your whole shtick, man, don’t act like that wasn’t a compliment.”
“Sure. Eddie ‘Distinctive’ Munson, that’s me.”
And post-game sentiment must be in the air, because as Steve leaves the parking lot, he calls out the car window, bright and teasing, “Hey, maybe I’ll miss the cheering!”
But Eddie can’t be sure. Unlike Steve, he might be mishearing things.
the first time wayne meets steve is actually far before the events of '86. in fact, it's in winter of '85.
he's on his way back from work when he pops a tire. he's pissed off, it's cold, still dark, and the beginnings of fucking snow are falling around him, and he doesn't have a spare. the nearest payphone is probably three miles walk, and he's just readying himself to make the journey when, miraculously, a pair of headlights turn onto the back road.
the car slows to a stop behind wayne's, and he's struck by how fucking nice it is. a brown bmw 733i, one he thinks he's seen around a couple times. when the driver steps out, he realises that, yes, he has seen this car. because the boy behind the wheel is the harrington boy, and wayne curses every god out there.
he expects some snark. a good attitude and for the kid to make him grovel for help or outright deny any assistance. instead, he approaches with these wide bambi eyes, the absolute picture of concern.
"are you alright, sir?" he asks, perfectly polite. wayne huffs.
"popped a tire, ain't got a spare." he doesn't- doesn't know why he's telling him. really doesn't. but something about the kid makes him falter, makes his steely exterior give way ever so slightly. the boy crouches down to the tire in question, frowning as he inspects it. then nods, grinning. he says nothing to wayne as he heads back to his car, and for moment he thinks the kid's gonna leave him in the dirt. but, instead, he pops the trunk and hauls out a spare, rolls it over to the car.
wayne only watches, fascinated, as he jogs back to retrieve a little set of tools. sits his ass by his tire and starts going at it. he's in a thin, short sleeved tshirt and jeans. he must be fucking freezing- wayne is, and he's got a thick coat, gloves and a hat on.
"what're you doin', boy?" he asks, unable to sound anything but bewildered. the kid blinks at him.
"changing your tire, sir?"
"i ain't got anything to pay you back with." wayne warns, wary. the kid shrugs, continues his task.
"that's okay, i wasn't going to ask you to." he pulls the popped tire off and lays it by his side. "it's just a good thing we have the same size, huh?" he grins, a little shy. wayne has never felt so thrown off in his life.
was this really james and cynthia harrington's boy? would someone of those people's blood really sit in the cold to change a strangers tire? expecting nothing in return? "where's your layers, kid? it's cold as ass out here, you'll catch a chill."
"oh, i gave it to my friend." seriously? seriously? "i'm alright sir, not to worry." he says this despite his red cheeks and reddening knuckles.
he finishes fitting the tire a second or two later, and once he's inspected it, gives wayne an endearingly dorky thumbs up. it reminds him of eddie in all the best ways. "all done, sir!" he collects up all his tools and threads an arm through the hole of the tire, balancing it on his shoulder. "i'll take this for you, i have to drive by the junkyard anyways." he doesn't. wayne knows the harrington's live in loch nora, and that's the opposite goddamn direction.
"you really a harrington?" he asks, not missing the confusion and maybe even slight disappointment he's met with. "just- no offence, son, but i always thought they were nothin' but bad." he deflates even more, if possible. "how did they raise such a kind boy?"
it's such a sudden change, how quickly he's smiling, bright enough to light the damn road if he wanted. it's all bashful and excited, it makes wayne wonder if he's never heard a good word about himself in his life, which seems insane.
"i still got a bit of an asshole gene," he jokes, a little dry, "but i'm trying to be better, you know?" he motions to the tire. "if you can help, why shouldn't you?"
wayne wants to squeeze him, but refrains. thanks him a couple times over and forces the boy to take his hat before he goes, (despite his complaints). harrington bids him farewell and a safe drive home, and he's driving off before either realise they never learnt each other's names.
(wayne finds his out later, though, when eddie meets him at the door, worried that he's late. only after he's walked his nephew through the story three times and sworn up and down, yes, it was true, and yes, it was definitely harrington. steve harrington.
when they meet again after '86, in eddie's hospital room, that boy from all that time ago holding his nephew's hand, he does give him that hug. thanks him, for both this time and the last.
steve wears the hat in winter of '86. it makes wayne smile.)
Since we are all beyond tired of seeing the same regurgitated leather posts every day, I've compiled and briefly debunked some of the most common myths peddled about leather and pleather… So hopefully we can all move on to talk about literally anything else.
1) Leather is not sustainable.
Approximately 85% of all leather (almost all leather you'll find in stores) is tanned using chromium. During the chrome tanning process, 40% of unused chromium salts are discharged in the final effluents, which makes it's way into waterways and poses a serious threat to wildlife and humans. There are also significant GHG emissions from the sheer amount of energy required to produce and tan leather.
Before we even get the cow's hide, you first need to get them to slaughter weight, which is a hugely resource-intensive process. Livestock accounts for 80% of all agricultural land use, and grazing land for cattle likely represents the majority of that figure. To produce 1 pound of beef (and the subsequent hide), 6-8 pounds of feed are required. An estimated 86% of the grain used to feed cattle is unfit for human consumption, but 14% alone represents enough food to feed millions of people. On top of that, one-third of the global water footprint of animal production is related to cattle alone.
The leather industry uses greenwashing to promote leather as an eco-friendly material. Leather is often marketed as an eco-friendly product, for example, fashion brands often use the Leather Working Group (LWG) certificate to present their leather as sustainable. However, this certification (rather conveniently) does not include farm-level impacts, which constitute the majority of the negative environmental harm caused by leather.
2) Leather is not just a byproduct.
Some cows are raised speciifically for leather, but this a minority and usually represents the most expensive forms of leather. This does not mean that leather is just a waste product of beef and dairy, or that it is a completely incidental byproduct; it is more accurate to call leather a tertiary product of the beef and dairy industries.
Hides used to fetch up to 50% of the total value of the carcass, this has dropped significantly since COVID-19 to only about 5-10%, but this is recovering, and still represents a significant profit margin. Globally, leather accounts for up to 26% of major slaughterhouses’ earnings. Leather is inextricably linked to the production of beef and dairy, and buying leather helps make the breeding, exploitation and slaughter of cows and steers a profitable enterprise.
3) Leather is not as biodegradable as you think.
Natural animal hides are biodegradable, and this is often the misleading way leather that sellers word it. "Cow hide is fully biodegradable" is absolutely true, it just purposely leaves out the fact that the tanning process means that the hide means that leather takes between 25 and 40 years to break down.
Even the much-touted (despite it being a tiny portion of the market) vegetable-tanned leather is not readily biodegradable. Since leather is not recyclable either, most ends up incinerated, or at landfill. The end-of-life cycle and how it relates to sustainability is often massively overstated by leather sellers, when in fact, it is in the production process that most of the damage is done.
4) Leather is not humane.
The idea that leather represents some sort of morally neutral alternative to the evils of plastic is frankly laughable, at least to anyone who has done even a little bit of research into this exploitative and incredibly harmful industry.
Cows, when properly cared for, can live more than fifteen years. However, most cows are usually slaughtered somewhere around 2-3 years old, and the softest leather, most luxurious leather comes from the hide of cows who are less than a year old. Some cows are not even born before they become victim to the industry. Estimates vary, but according to an EFSA report, on average 3% of dairy cows and 1.5 % of beef cattle, are in their third-trimester of pregnancy when they are slaughtered.
Slaughter procedures vary slightly by country, but a captive bolt pistol shot to the head followed by having their throats slit, while still alive, is standard industry practice. This represents the “best” a slaughtered cow can hope for, but many reports and videos exist that suggest that cows still being alive and conscious while being skinned or dismembered on the production line is not uncommon, some of these reports come from slaughterhouse workers themselves.
5) Leather often involves human exploitation.
The chemicals used to tan leather, and the toxic water that is a byproduct of tanning, affect workers as well as the environment; illness and death due to toxic tanning chemicals is extremely common. Workers across the sector have significantly higher morbidity, largely due to respiratory diseases linked to the chemicals used in the tanning process. Exposure to chromium (for workers and local communities), pentachlorophenol and other toxic pollutants increase the risk of dermatitis, ulcer nasal septum perforation and lung cancer.
Open Democracies report for the Child Labour Action Research Programme shows that there is a startlingly high prevalence of the worst forms of child labour across the entire leather supply chain. Children as young as seven have been found in thousands of small businesses processing leather. This problem is endemic throughout multiple countries supplying the global leather market.
6) Pleather is not a ‘vegan thing’.
Plastic clothing is ubiquitous in fast fashion, and it certainly wasn’t invented for vegans. Plastic leather jackets have been around since before anyone even knew what the word vegan meant, marketing department have begun describing it as ‘vegan leather’ but it’s really no more a vegan thing than polyester is. Most people who wear pleather are not vegan, they just can’t afford to buy cow’s leather, which remains extremely expensive compared to comparable fabrics.
It is striking how anti-vegans consistently talk about how ‘not everyone can afford to eat plant-based’ and criticise vegans for advocating for veganism on that basis, yet none of them seem to mind criticisms directed at people for wearing a far cheaper alternative than leather. You can obviously both be vegan and reduce plastic (as we all should), but vegans wear plastic clothing for the same reason everyone else does: It is cheaper.
7) Plastic is not the only alternative.
When engaging in criticism of pleather, the favourite tactic seems to be drawing a false dilemma where we pretend the only options are plastic and leather. Of course, this is a transparent attempt to draw the debate on lines favourable to advocates of leather, by omitting the fact that you can quite easily just buy neither one.
Alternatives include denim, hemp, cork, fiber, mushroom fiber, cotton, linen, bamboo, recycled plastic, and pinatex, to name a few. There are exceptions in professions like welding, where an alternative can be difficult to source, but nobody needs a jacket, shoes or a bag that looks like leather. For most of us, leather is a luxury item that doesn’t even need to be replaced at all.
8) Leather is not uniquely long-lasting.
The longevity of leather is really the only thing it has going for it, environmentally speaking. Replacing an item less often means fewer purchases, and will likely have a lower environmental impact than one you have to replace regularly. Leather is not unique in this respect, however, and the idea that it is, is mostly just effective marketing.
As your parents will tell you, a well-made denim jacket can last a lifetime. Hemp and bamboo can both last for decades, as can cork and pinatex. Even cotton and linen can last for many years when items are looked after well. While some materials are more hard wearing than others, how long an item will last is mostly the result of how well made the product is and how well it is maintained, not whether or not the item is leather.
While birds are one of the few animal groups to have achieved powered flight, they're also very prone to losing their aerial abilities. Many times over their evolutionary history, multiple different bird lineages have convergently become secondarily flightless – and Patagopteryx deferrariisi was one of the earliest known examples of this.
Living during the Late Cretaceous, about 86-84 million years ago, in what is now the northern part of Argentine Patagonia in South America, Patagopteryx was roughly the size of a modern chicken at around 50cm long.
When it was first discovered it was classified as a ratite, but soon after it was recognized as actually being a much earlier type of bird, an early ornithuromorph only distantly related to any modern groups.
It had small wings, little-to-no keel, and no wishbone, indicating it lacked the large powerful musculature required for flight. Its legs were quite long, with large feet with all four toes facing forward – proportions that suggest it was built more for walking than for high-speed running.
Growth rings in its bones also show that it had a much slower growth rate than modern birds, taking several years to reach adult size.
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Chiappe, Luis M. "The first 85 million years of avian evolution." Nature 378.6555 (1995): 349-355. https://doi.org/10.1038/378349a0
Chiappe, L. M. "Osteology of the flightless Patagopteryx deferrariisi from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)." Mesozoic birds: above the heads of dinosaurs (2002): 281-316. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281640883_Osteology_of_the_Flightless_Patagopteryx_deferrariisi_from_the_Late_Cretaceous_of_Patagonia_Argentina
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Today is Erev Yom Ha'Shoah (Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day) in Israel. It will be observed by Jews outside of Israel, too.
The Hebrew date was chosen to honor the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It's also a week before Erev Yom Ha'Zikaron Le'Chalalei Ma'archot Yisrael (Eve of Israel's Memorial Day for its Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims), which is itself observed a day before Yom Ha'Atzmaut Le'Yisrael (Israel's Independence Day). A lot of people have remarked on the connection between the three dates. On Yom Ha'Atzmaut, we celebrate our independence, which allows us to determine our own fate, and defend ourselves without being dependent on anyone else, right after we remember the price in human life that we have paid and continue to pay for this independence, and a week before we mourn the price we've had to pay for not getting to have self defence during the Holocaust. NEVER FORGET that in one Nazi shooting pit alone (out of almost two thousand) during just 2 days (Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur 1941), more Jewish men, women and kids were slaughtered than in the 77 years since Israel's Independence War was started by the Arabs. This unbreakable connection between the living and the dead, between our joy and our grief, is often addressed with the Hebrew phrase, במותם ציוו לנו את החיים, "With their death, they ordered us to live."
On this Erev Yom Ha'Shoah, I'd like to share with you some data, published on Thursday by Israel's Central Bureau for Statistics (source in Hebrew).
The number of Jews worldwide is 15.7 million, still lower than it was in 1939, before the Holocaust, 85 years ago (that is what a genocide looks like demographically).
7.1 million Jews live in Israel (45% of world Jewry)
6.3 million Jews live in the US (40% of world Jewry)
Here's the data for the top 9 Jewish communities in the world:
There are about 133,000 Holocaust survivors currently living in Israel. Most (80%) live in big cities in central Israel. Around 1,500 are still evacuated from their homes in northern and southern Israel due to the war (back in January, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, there was a report about 1,894 survivors who also became internal refugees due to the war. Source in Hebrew). One Holocaust survivor, 86 years old Shlomo Mansour, is still held hostage in Gaza. He survived the Farhud in Iraq.
I haven't seen any official number for how many survivors had been slaughtered as a part of Hamas' massacre, despite everyone here being aware that Holocaust survivors had been murdered on Oct 7, such as 91 years old Moshe Ridler. Maybe, as we're still discovering that some people thought to have been kidnapped during the massacre, were actually killed on that day, no one wants to give a "final" number while Shlomo has not yet been returned alive.
Out of all Israeli Holocaust survivors, 61.1% were born in Europe (35.8% in the countries of the former Soviet Union, 10.8% in Romania, 4.9% in Poland, 2.9% in Bulgaria, 1.5% in Germany and Austria, 1.3% in Hungary, 4.2% in the rest of Europe), 36.6% were born in Asia or Africa (16.5% in Morocco, 10.9% in Iraq, 4% in Tunisia, 2.6% in Libya, 2.1% in Algeria, 0.5% in other Asian and African countries) and 2.3% were born elsewhere.
Out of all Holocaust survivors in Israel, 6.2% managed to make it here before the establishment of the state, despite the British Mandate's immigration policy against it (up until May 13, 1948). 30.5% made it to Israel during its very first years (May 14, 1948 until 1951), another 29.8% arrived in the following decades (1952-1989), and 33.5% made Aliyah once the Soviet Union collapsed, and Jewish immigration to the west (which included Israel) was no longer prohibited by the Soviet regimes (1990 on).
The second biggest community of survivors in the world is in the US, the third biggest (but second biggest relative to the size of the population) is in Australia. I heard from many Holocaust survivors who chose to immigrate there that they wanted to get "as physically far away from Europe as possible."
For a few years now, there's been this project in Israel, called Maalim Zikaron, מעלים זיכרון (uploading memory. Here's the project's site in Hebrew. In English it's called Sharing Memories, and here's the English version of the site) where Israeli celebs are asked to meet up with a Holocaust survivor (it's done in Hebrew), and share the survivor's story and the meeting on their social media on Erev Yom Ha'Shoah (which is today). Each year, there's also one non-Israeli Jewish celeb asked to participate (in English. This time around it's Michael Rapaport, he's meeting Aliza, an 81 years old survivor from the Netherlands, who was hidden along with 9 other Jewish babies for two years. He uploaded a preview of his meeting with her here, where he asked her what it means to her to be a Jew, and from what I understand, he will upload more today to the same IG account). This year, there will be an emphasis on Holocaust survivors who also survived Oct 7 (with 6 of the 20 participating survivors having survived Hamas as well). Here's a small bit from an interview with one such survivor, 90 years old Daniel Luz from kibbutz Be'eri:
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Steve has never actually kissed anyone on New Year’s Eve before. After he and Nancy reconciled post-Demogorgon showdown in 83 they’d gotten close, but Mike had interrupted them on the Wheeler’s front porch, the little shit. And after Nancy, well, he’d been alone in 84. In 85, he and Robin built a blanket fort in his living room and drank themselves sick on root beer until the ball dropped, and he’d held her hand while they drifted asleep, kissing out of the question; he loved her in a different, deeper way.
And now…now it’s 86, about to be 87, and Eddie is alive, miraculously, and all of them are gathered in the new Hopper-Byers house, and Eddie has been flirting with him ever since Steve manhandled his mangled body to the hospital, Steve’s an idiot but he’s not stupid, and here’s Eddie looking at him like Steve is alive, too. Eddie looks at him and something awakens. There’s an electricity in the air, the kind he told Dustin about once upon a time in the woods.
So when he knows no one is watching, he looks Eddie deep in the eye and says “share a smoke?” And they leave the room together for the quiet cold of the backyard, still mostly weeds and the dark of winter and Steve can see Eddie’s breath. Can see how alive he is. He’s been worried about him all year, intrigued by him, pulled toward. And now here they are. The dim patio bulb flickers and before Steve can get out a cig, can say another word, before he can say “happy new year Eddie I can’t stop thinking about you and I know you’ve been flirting with me for months and I want you I want you just as bad will you kiss me?” Eddie is already kissing him.
And it’s soft. It’s so soft, because Eddie is smiling against his mouth in a kiss, his left hand coming up to hold Steve’s chin. And then it’s hotter, their breath mixing as they both open their mouths wider, kissing deeper, feeling their lips move together and Steve can’t believe it can’t think can’t hear the screen door open can’t stop kissing Eddie until he feels Eddie pull away, removing his hands from his hair, hears Robin say “uh, earth to dingus one and two, hello!?”
Steve just stares at Eddie, blushing and smiling. He doesn’t turn to her, can’t look away when he says “hi Rob.” Eddie won’t look away either. Eddie won’t look away from him, does the opposite, grabs Steve’s hand. Steve feels like he’s floating.
“Oh my god, lover boys. It’s only” Steve sees her lift her wrist in his peripheral vision, “ten thirty. It’s only ten thirty and you’re already kissing!” He can hear her exasperation, but beneath he knows, he can feel her approval. He can’t help it, he’s relieved. He’s happy. He starts to giggle.
Eddie starts to laugh too, pulling Steve closer. Steve finally looks over to see Robin rolling her eyes, but she’s also beaming, her face lit by the single bulb, and they pull her down to them, hug her, kiss her on the cheeks. “Ah, my freckled friend. You won’t spill the beans, will you?” Eddie asks.
Robin pinches Eddie’s cheek. “Your secret’s safe with me, hotshot.” Steve knows down to his bones it’s true. Knows she’ll cover for them. This makes him feel even giddier. “I’ll, uh. Let you two get back to it” she says, and then she’s gone, and it’s just Eddie looking at him again, staring at Steve like he’s a second moon, a pretty thing.
They kiss and kiss and kiss, until they slide out of the grass and out the back gate and kiss their way back to Steve’s car, into his house and bed and heart and it’s already a good year.
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EVERY EPISODE SO FAR THAT DOESNT END WITH “GOODNIGHT, NIGHT VALE. GOODNIGHT”
SO I finished the list today! This list includes any variation of the phrase, episodes where he just doesn’t say it although present, and episode where he doesn’t say it because he’s not present. I decided to mark colour code them as a result!
• variation, • no goodnight, • no Cecil
Before I start:
I did not include extra episodes like snippets from the lives shows and such.
For the quotes here I only took the final phrase. So anything that breaks the usual scheme like a lack of “stay tuned next” or any lengthy monologue about anything relating to the goodnight phrase, I didn’t quote
I’m thinking about making a video compilation later on but for now I DONT have the space to dowload all these episodes so this will do for now!
If I missed any, lmk!
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• 1 — Pilot
Good night, listeners. Good night.
• 2 — Glow Cloud
Good night, listeners. Good night.
• 3 — Station Management
Good night, Night Vale. And goodbye.
• 4 — PTA Meeting
Good night, listeners. Good night.
• 5 — The Shape in Grove Park
Good night, listeners. Good night.
• 6 — The Drawbridge
Buenas noches, Night Vale. Good night.
• 7 — History Week
And, from this moment in history, the one that’s happening right now, good night.
• 8 — The lights in Radon Canyon
It is a good night, listeners. Good night.
• 9 — “PYRAMID”
Speaking of the nighttime, I truly hope you have a good one, Night Vale. Goodnight.
• 10 — Feral Dogs
Get your sleep, Night Vale. And don’t forget to dream. Good Night.
• 14 — The Man in the Tan Jacket
Good night, Night Vale. Be alert, and write down everything you cannot comprehend. Until next time.
• 15 — Street Cleaning Day
Good night. Good night. Good night.
• 19B — The sandstorm
Kevin: Until next time, Desert Bluffs, Until next time.
• 46 — Parade day
And until next time, Good Night, Night Va- Hey. Hey. No. What are you-
• 47 — Company Picnic
Kevin: And, as always, until next time, Greater Desert Bluffs Metropolitan Area. Until next time.
• 49A — Old Oak Doors (Part A)
Listeners, there is someone knocking on my station door, which must mean…Carlos? Carlos, is that you? Come in, and welcome home, my sweet Car…
• 53 — The September Monologues
Well, that's it for the September Monologues. We've said so much. What more is there to say?
• 65 — Voicemails
Kevin: Until next time, Cecil. Until next time.
• 67 — [Best Of?]
Leonard Burton: And as always "See ya, Night Vale. See ya."
• 70A — Taking Off
Kevin: Until next time, new Desert Bluffs, until next time. Oh. Oh no. This is so sad. No. I don’t like this. I am sad. No. No.
• 85 — The April Monologues
And so we reach the end of the April Monologues. There is much that could be said. I will say none of it.
• 86 — Standing and Breathing
Good night, Night Vale. (Maybe lock those windows too.) Good night.
• 87 — The Trial of Hiram McDaniels
Good night. I guess.
• 88 — Things Fall Apart
Hello? [very faint breathing] Hello? [very faint breathing] Who is this? [distant dog bark]
• 89 — Who’s a good boy? (Part 1)
“I want nothing, Cecil. Nothing at all. And I will have it.” Huff huff huff. Huff huff Huff.
• 94 — All Right
All right Night Vale. Good night.
• 98 — Flight
Good night.
• 100 — Toast
Good night, Night Vale, and every person who can hear my voice. Good night.
• 101 — Guidelines for Retrieval
Happy purging, Night Vale. And goodnight.
• 104 — The Hierarchy of Angels
Good night, Night Vale. Josie was beautiful. And angels are real. Good night.
• 109 — A Story About Huntokar
Huntokar: Good night, my Night Vale. Good night.
• 111 — Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA
Good night, listeners. Good night.
• 113 — Niecelet
Any second now. Any second. Any... second.
• 120 — All Smiles’ Eve
Lauren: Good night, Kevin. And good night, Desert Bluffs Too.
Kevin: Good night.
• 128 — A Matter of Blood (Part 2)
Oh god, it’s here.
• 133 — Are You Sure?
Is this the first time you’ve heard me say this? Are you sure? Welcome to Night Vale.
• 135 — The Mudstone Abyss (Part 1)
Kevin: Until next time, Desert Bluffs, Until next time.
• 136 — The Mudstone Abyss (Part 2)
Charles: Kevin. I. Handlebar cereal, okay? Handlebar cereal.
VM: End of message.
• 137 — The Mudstone Abyss (Part 3)
Kevin: Until next time, Desert Bluffs, Until next time.
• 148 — The Broadcaster
Leonard Burton: And until tomorrow, "See ya, Night Vale. See ya."
• 156 — The Trouble with Time
Listeners. I must go. I must talk to my husband. We can be together forever, don’t you see? A new world awaits us in the future. I must talk to Carlos. I must.
• 157 — The Promise of Time
Kasper: Believe in a smiling god, buddy. Believe in a smiling god.
• 164 — The Faceless Old Woman (Live)
FOW: And I will be seeing you very, very… soon.
• 171 — Go To The Mirror?
Won’t you have a good night, Night Vale? Won’t you have a good night?
• 175 — The October Monologues
And as the leaves are done, so are the October Monologues. All that can be said has been said. And all that can be said will be said again.
• 177 — Bloody Laws, Bloody Claws: The Murder of Frank Chen
That about does it for me, Night Vale. That about does it for me.
• 195 — Silas the Thief (Part 1)
Silas: And my name is Silas. Not Khoshekh. Okay? Okay.
• 196 — Silas the Thief (Part 2)
And one I have to consider. Am I Khoshekh? I don’t know if I’m ready to admit that just yet.
• 199 — Guidelines for Retrieval
Happy hoarding, Night Vale. Goodnight.
• 200 — Susan Willman Comes Clean
Susan Willman: So let me begin. This is a story about Huntokar, said a voice on the radio. A voice you had never heard before, though she has been speaking to you your whole life.
• 203 — The Kareem Nazari Show
Kareem: Again, really sorry. Uh, so… Take care. I guess.
• 216 — The Ball Is Where The Win Is
Steve: You have already made me so proud
• 221 — The Glow Cloud, Explained
All Hail, Night Vale. All Hail.
• 227 — A Word With Dr. Jones
Lubelle: Show over, Night Vale. Show over.
• 230 — Carlos, Explained
Good night, my Night Vale restored. Good night.
• 237 — Frown Night
Kevin: Until next time, Desert Bluffs Too, Until next time.
• 239 — Sister Cities: Vermillion Falls
Frank Luna: Good evening, Vermillion Falls. Good evening.
• 240 — He Is Holding a Knife
He is holding a knife. He takes the knife, and sets it against the microphone cord. And with one smooth and easy motion, he cuts the co-
• 249 – Rifts
I would say good night, Night Vale…But if a tree falls in the forest, you know?
Tera was riding on top of N's head, nibbling on the brim of his hat as Hal led both N and Uzi through the bunker towards his apartment, it had actually been a minute since they'd spent considerable time here, preferring to settle into the nest instead of heading to their apartment. Only stopping in for oil or a tool that Uzi left behind.
As they walked, Uzi lost in thought as per usual, and only following N out of instinct, brushed her hand across where her side panel was, the area had begun to feel uncomfortable and tingly, but nothing so far had changed.
She sighed, she wanted this to be over with already. She wanted her body to behave normally again, she wanted to be able to walk without shifting her weight or fly without feeling like she’d just run an entire marathon. But it wasn’t just that, she wanted to meet the little tyke that was pinging around on the inside of her core, it was a weird feeling to be so in love with someone you hadn’t even met yet, but even now, she could feel it, stirring her to smile gently while placing a hand over her core.
The body growing inside her had yet to move at all, which she could only assume was due to the fact the little AI was still developing in her core, what would happen when it was done was beyond anyone's guess, weather it would transfer down into the body, or weather those were going to be separate processes entirely. She was still nervous, but with all the stress lately it had been easy to push out the fact that this baby was going to have to come out of her, one way or another.
“We’re here! Come in! Come in!” Hal opened the door to his apartment, leading them inside, many photos of Hal and his wife lined the walls, she was a redhead, with long braided hair and sparkling white eyelights, handmade pottery lined the shelves and were used as decoration everywhere, soft humming and the sound of a motor filled the air. Hal called out; “Reida dear! we have guests!”
The humming stopped, as did the soft hum of the motor, and a soft, almost ethereal voice wafted back; “Coming!”
Reida came from an adjoining room, clay staining her hands and her hair. A beaming maternal smile on her face as she clasped her hands in front of her. “Oh! The Doorman Family! I almost expected you all not to show, I know you have to be busy.” She gave her husband a kiss on his whiskered cheek, pulling him down by the sleeve… N hadn’t realized how short she was in comparison.
She went up to N first, her gaze was almost piercing, like she was looking into his very soul. And then she smiled wide. “And you must be N, Hal has told me quite a bit about you dear. You look so handsome! Come er’” She wrapped her arms around him and gave him a gigantic hug, she smelled like the earth, or the forest floor.
N stiffened in surprise, not used to anyone but Uzi hugging him at all, but he relaxed after a second tentatively hugging in reciprocation, her grip surprisingly strong. Comforting, in some strange way.
Tera peeked down at the new woman from his head, and Reida pulled back as her smile grew to three times it’s size. “Oh! This is your daughter! Look at her! She’s so lively!” N reached up to take Tera off his head, the toddler giving her normal greeting to strangers; a questioning, slightly aggressive glare…
“Oh dear-” She chuckled, a soft smile on her face. “-Looks just like Nori, that woman had the meanest look to her when she wanted.” Tera continued to glare for a moment, taking a few tentative sniffs before her face broke into a happy smile, giggling.
“She’s so cute! That laugh is so precious! May I-?” She asked, hand hovering slightly over Tera, asking for permission to hold her. N glanced at Uzi, who gave a soft nod before he slowly sat her in the woman’s arms. Tera cocked her head as they locked eyes, before showing off her fangs in a smile.
“OOooh! Look at those! You get those from your dad don’t you? Don’t you? Aww, yes you do!” Immediately, her voice went into baby talk, babbling nonsense as Tera made noises of her own, giggling at the weirdness of the lady holding her. Hal chuckled.
“Don’t get too distracted dear. You’ve got someone left to greet.” Hal hummed, his voice several octaves softer then it ever was at work. Reida suddenly froze, a blush on her face.
“Oh Yes! I’m so sorry! I see a baby and lose my mind!” She handed Tera back hesitantly before turning to Uzi, now looking slightly nervous, she was perfectly fine just watching them interact…
“Your Nori’s daughter… ah! look how pretty you are! You got your moms looks, that’s for sure!” Uzi blushed, compliments still being awkward to take when it wasn’t N. She was even more put off when she was crushed in a hug, not sure what to do.
“Oh uh… Thank you?” She replied, unsure and unsteady, the older woman’s eyelights fell to her core, something soft filling her face as she released the smaller worker.
“And another on the way… And you’re working your tuckus off to save us all! On your feet all day! Come darling, lets get you sat down, you ain’t working under my roof!” And suddenly Reida was leading her to the couch with a hand on her back, Uzi looking back at N with an alarmed and confused look when she was all but forced onto the couch. And Then she hurried away towards the kitchen, closer to where the men were standing.
Hal looked over at N “Aye, that’s my Reida… She’ll make ya take yer shoes off and before ya know it, you’re waking up the next morning pampered like royalty.” He laughed, his gaze falling down to Tera, now riled up and wanting to play.
“I wanted ta ask, Uzi is… looking different now. Is everything alright with her?” He asked quietly, and N gulped, he knew that people would start noticing soon. He just… didn’t know how to explain it without sounding completely deranged.
“She’s fine. It’s… Dissasembly Drone pregnancies work differently?” Eugh, that sounded unconvincing at best and like lies at worst. Why was he so bad at this…
Hal raised an eyebrow, asking him to elaborate. N didn't want to freak him out, but he didn't want to lie either…
“She's… building the body inside of her, we're both partially organic… you've seen the wings and tail. That's why she's… “looking different”.
Hal blinked.
“Like-Like a human?”
N nodded.
“Ow.” Was all Hal had to say, before his wife came sailing into their direction.
“What did you just say. It's a organic pregnancy?” She asked, eyelights blown out wide as she took a glance over at Uzi.
Yeah, she'd noticed, she just didn't want to be rude! She'd never think it was because of… that.
“Poor thing! It's a wonder she hasn't hurt herself!” But Reida shook it off quickly, heading over to the couch with a small cup of chilled oil in her hand.
“She's been wanting to meet Ya'll for awhile…’specially you. Kinda got on my ass after she heard you all on stage, and the announcement.
“Ugh… that was an accident. We didn't want everyone to know…”
Hal gave a bark of laughter and slapped his back.
“I figured! She don't seem like a sharing type…” Hal gestured over to Uzi, who was now being doted on by the older woman like a mother would dote on her daughter.
“Though, now that it's not so crazy…”
Hal gave a smirk.
“How soft is she really with ya? Ya always came to work with this goofy satisfied look on yer face.”
“Hal!” N blushed heavily. Not expecting the question and getting flustered put of his mind. Hal laughed again.
“Haha! Don't answer that! I'm just teasin’ but ya really weren't subtle about it. Everybody could tell the days ya got lucky.” Hal snickered, and N grumbled, before a far worse thought entered his mind.
1. The Batman
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Prey
4. Triangle of Sadness
5. Barbarian
6. The Northman
7. Bodies Bodies Bodies
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Bones and All
10. Avatar: The Way of Water
Grade A
11. Turning Red
12. The Menu
13. Babylon
14. Hit the Road
15. Cow
16. Watcher
17. Funny Pages
18. Mad God
19. On the Count of Three
20. Armageddon Time
21. Terrifier 2
22. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
23. Smile
24. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
25. Holy Spider
26. Aftersun
27. The Fabelmans
28. Breaking
29. Decision to Leave
30. The Whale
31. All Quiet on the Western Front
32. Brian and Charles
33. Piggy
34. Saint Omer
35. Thirteen Lives
36. Men
37. The Fallout
38. Resurrection
39. Causeway
40. The Black Phone
41. Official Competition
42. Nope
43. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
44. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
45. Till
46. TÁR
47. Happening
48. A Love Song
49. The Outfit
50. The Innocents
51. Jackass Forever
52. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
53. Montana Story
54. Three Thousand Years of Longing
55. You Won’t Be Alone
56. The Sadness
57. Halloween Ends
58. Pearl
59. X
60. Vesper
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Grade B
61. This Place Rules
62. Fresh
63. Windfall
64. Kimi
65. No Exit
66. Top Gun: Maverick
67. “Sr.”
68. Farha
69. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
70. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
71. Nitram
72. Speak No Evil
73. Run Sweetheart Run
74. She Said
75. White Noise
76. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
77. V/H/S/99
78. The Wonder
79. Women Talking
80. Hatching
81. Soft & Quiet
82. Scream
83. To Leslie
84. Hustle
85. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers
86. Dual
87. God’s Country
88. Emancipation
89. Vengeance
90. Fire of Love
91. Bullet Train
92. Incantation
93. The Valet
94. Hellraiser
95. Christmas Bloody Christmas
96. Significant Other
97. Cha Cha Real Smooth
98. Lucy and Desi
99. Not Okay
100. A Christmas Story Christmas
101. Blonde
102. Deadstream
103. Sissy
Grade C
104. The Bad Guys
105. The Cursed
106. Empire of Light
107. A Man Called Otto
108. Broker
109. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
110. The Princess
111. Beast
112. After Yang
113. RRR
114. Fall
115. Jackass 4.5
116. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
117. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
118. Jennifer Lopez: Halftime
119. Lightyear
120. The Pale Blue Eye
121. The Woman King
122. Violent Night
123. God’s Creatures
124. Ambulance
125. Elvis
126. You Are Not My Mother
127. Emily the Criminal
128. Crimes of the Future
129. The Apology
130. The Lost City
131. Wendell & Wild
132. Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99
133. The Found Footage Phenomenon
134. See How They Run
135. Spiderhead
136. Studio 666
137. Bros
138. Spin Me Round
139. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
140. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
141. Honor Society
Grade D
142. Thor: Love and Thunder
143. Summering
144. Strange World
145. Glorious
146. The Gray Man
147. Devotion
148. Clerks III
149. The Forgiven
150. Enola Holmes 2
151. Father Stu
152. Jurassic World Dominion
153. DC League of Super-Pets
154. She Will
155. The Bob’s Burgers Movie
156. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
157. Hellbender
158. Samaritan
159. Day Shift
160. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
161. Prey for the Devil
162. Troll
163. Uncharted
164. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
165. Dashcam
166. Firestarter
167. Do Revenge
168. Catwoman: Hunted
169. The Munsters
170. Amsterdam
171. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Grade F
172. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
173. The Bubble
174. Dead for a Dollar
175. Jerry & Marge Go Large
176. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
177. Infinite Storm
178. Marry Me
179. Don’t Worry Darling
180. Spirited
181. Disney's Pinocchio
182. Alice
183. Black Adam
184. Orphan: First Kill
185. The Adam Project
186. The Invitation
187. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
188. Ticket to Paradise
189. The 355
190. Umma
Bottom 10
191. Green Lantern: Beware My Power
192. Deep Water
193. Where the Crawdads Sing
194. Blacklight
195. Mack & Rita
196. Memory
197. Me Time
198. Death on the Nile
199. Morbius
200. Moonfall