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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 1 month

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tuesday again 4/2/2024

in which i try to clean two different boxes with varying success

new people: hello! the tuesdaypost is a weekly roundup of stuff i've been listening, reading, watching, playing, and making. it is NOT a recommendation series, although i sometimes dabble in critique. when im firing on all cylinders i ask "what is the core concept of this? does it succeed in what i think it's trying to do and what it says it's doing?is it well-made but i dislike it/beautiful but not for me? why? what parts Really Work?"

if you are into purity culture, yelling at other people about the problematic media they consume, or are under 18 i am going to have very little patience for you.

listening

now that i live in houston i am legally obliged to loop the new beyonce album 24/7. there is absolutely truly nobody fucking doing it like her. every song is a multimedia art piece. goddamn do i miss the album as a tool to convey a specific concept/listening order/flow. sometimes (chappell roan most recently comes to mind, although it does feel unfair to compare anyone to beyonce) every individual song is pretty good but the listening experience if you sit down and listen all the way through the album is unpleasant and choppy. not so here. NEVER here.

my favorite like Dance Number is YA YA (it samples nancy sinatra's boots! and the beach boys' good vibrations! wildly different tones despite coming out a year apart!)

youtube

the one that goes on four different character/tone playlists is BODYGUARD.

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great early roundup of influences, samples, and collaborators. delighted to see five fingers for marseilles listed, a rocky but underrated south african neo-western free on tubi rn for americans

reading

also very texas-relevant with the recent pornhub lawsuits! pornhub and sex tech (among other things) have been samantha cole's beat for almost ten years. i trust her to report sensitively and not for like. shock clicks

this site has a free paywall (sign up with your email for a link to the full article) so bots have a harder time scraping articles: this is a journalist-founded site with only the four founders running it and writing articles. while annoying i do think this is a reasonable measure

The platform still has problems, but after years of critical reporting and a litany of legal and reputational consequences, Pornhub is now more heavily moderated than any other porn platform, and most major social media platforms, for that matter. A growing list of age verification laws has put Pornhub in a position where it is compelled to block access to its site in seven states and counting. In theory, these laws are designed to prevent children from being able to access pornography online. In reality, what is going to happen is that children are going to end up on pornographic sites that don’t care what the law says, and where some of the most harmful content that exists online is actively promoted to them.

she's also got a new limited series podcast with CBC about the rise and fall of pornhub, which was fascinating and kept me company during an extremely early morning drive

watching

i'm lukewarm about this one but i spend a lot of time getting there, much like this movie

ive been watching a lot of frankly dogshit thrillers, which has made me wonder: what's the deal with supervillans? where did they come from? and thence arrived at the prototypical film Dr Mabuse the Gambler (1922, dir. Lang). the four and a half hour cut on Kanopy is two normal-length movies superglued together, which makes sense as a streaming product but it is sort of a terrifying runtime and took me three days to get through.

sometimes, as we know, i get a real bee in my bonnet about visiting the early versions of things. dr mabuse is the blueprint for every james bond and mission impossible villain, or really any shadowy supervillain with power over [INDUSTRY] or [THE MARKET]. it is a four and a half hour long cat and mouse game through lavish, eccentric sets between mabuse and prosecutor wenk. it has some trouble sustaining itself bc it is four and a half hours long but does deliver on the cat and mouse aspects. this letterboxed review has interesting things to say about the political climate of 1922 germany and how lang subverts the formula of the pulp serial.

really the film opens with mabuse yelling at his cocaine-addicted assistant, but the film properly gets going with mabuse's henchmen stealing a trade agreement (nothing really carbon dates a movie more than a missing trade agreement. vanishingly few post-early-30s movies have missing trade agreements as plot points) and then he crashes the stock market. for fun and profit.

however. i think every time you see an evil man who is a banker or stockbroker or generally uses money as power you have to interrogate whether it's antisemitic. the answer here is "maybe" but i'm not sure if intent matters when contemporary nazi critics were eager to hold mabuse up as "this is the typical jewish criminal". (sorry about the link directly to wikipedia, it's been touch finding online sources for this section). mabuse is not specifically jewish, but there are certainly elements of stereotype. i am still not good at being presented with "this movie has a shadowy behind the scenes figure manipulating the government and all the money ever" and going "hey wait a minute".

after that tremendous glaring caveat, for which i read more contemporary reviews and reviews in general than i ever read for movies in these posts, is it good? eh. a contemporary VARIETY review remarked (and i largely agree)

The direction of Fritz Lang has moments – but Lang somewhat negates his good technical effects by twenty forty-word captions of a ludicrous unconciseness.

the night scenes are particularly well done, and imo are better than many modern night scenes--other contemporary reviews remarked

In this film the techniques of the film camera (Carl Hoffmann’s brilliant photography) are brought to perfection. The problem of how to film lit-up streets at night has been solved for the first time. It is unbelievably impressive to see the glaring lights of speeding cars flash through the night or the rapid passing of an elevated train of the initially blurred, then gradually focussed glimpse through a pair of opera glasses on to the variety stage, the nuances of light and shade—these things alone prove the value of film documentary.

look at this shit! filmed from within the cars! in 1922!!!

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this film asks you to believe hypnotism is real and really effective, so i don't think it's that big of a leap when it asks you to believe in ghosts. i don't understand that quibble from contemporary viewers. there are several on screen suicides with like. specific methods. which is not currently regarded as good filmmaking practice. im curious to know what contemporary audiences thought but couldn't immediately turn anything up, and wading through masters’ theses on cinematic suicide is a little beyond my current mental health.

if i were a more content-minded woman this would turn into a clickbait video essay about the antisemitic origins of every supervillan. however i am unqualified and untalented at video editing and i'm sure there are forty theses on this already. this movie is a hard sell to anyone jewish or employed. it is also a stunning example of cutting-edge film technology and part of the genesis of the modern supervillan. Fritz Lang films tend to fall in the category of “movies i am happy to see once and feel no need to revisit”.

playing

playing what is effectively the same game three times back to back (breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom, genshin impact) has sort of burned me out on open world games with a focus on battle skill progression and stumbling across little puzzles in the overworld. i have to get itch.io up and running on this pc and find the most linear jankiest possible one-sitting indie thing. or several of them. i might try the solo ttrpg Gentleman Bandit i seem to have acquired in one of the giant charity bundles

brief breath of the wild update bc i don't want to pull screenshots off my switch: i have gotten to the boss fight for the gerudo and goron regions, have not completed them bc my focus in this game is NOT hearts, and am in the middle of the zora temple. despite the quality of life improvements and new regions in totk i think i prefer botw: progression is a bit easier, there are fewer mmo-style hub quests and repeatable quests. things like the stable photos are cute but very repetitive, so are the sign bracing puzzles, and the sky crystal quests for sky shrines feel VERY samey. also dislike how the CLEAR OUT: [REGION] quests with the monster suppression squads reset at the blood moon.

anyway! to genshin! there was an exceptionally fun little event with a surprisingly involved management sim tacked onto the game??? you make and sell potions fulfilling different requirements, and can eventually stock travelling merchants all over the continent. the actual act of making the potions was this block-filling 1010! style thing (screenshot from polygon)

the new region, a port town and tea-growing area called Chenyu Vale, is maybe the prettiest one in the game so far? it's the one that feels the most picturesque and Designed, like this is one huge mansion garden studded with follies. they also added background chatter and noise in the cities and towns, which really startled me and makes them feels much more lived in! this is a fun trick to avoid putting in a thousand NPCs and making everyone's framerate crash. the less stuff in your game, the less shit can go wrong.

also pulled for and got chiyori, a geo-aligned seamstress (and sometime spy???) swordswoman who has what i can only call domme voice

making

ok now we'll talk about boxes. i was rearranging my kitchen, as unemployed women are known to do, and noticed this recipe box i picked up back in mass was disgusting. the finish is starting to fail but it was genuinely grody and last summer i packed my kitchen in a blind panic inside an hour and did not have time to address it. i have never seen a recipe box at an estate sale before or since and it made me desperately sad.

it was full of a lot of stuff.

i went at it with a somewhat inadvisable combination of things: wood soap didn't budge it, so i dampened a paper towel in vinegar and wiped it down in the vain hope it would do something. the thing that worked, and would be inadvisable for anything veneered or less densely textured, was baking soda paste and the scrubby side of a sponge. it still smells Very musty even after 48h of loose baking soda inside with several changes, but that might be partly the recipe cards' fault. i would like to refinish this at some point but i don't have polyurethane on hand and the fun little project budget is empty until further notice/i get a job.

the hinge did rust a bit despite my best efforts but that has since been lightly steel wooled and oiled. a well loved object! it's possible the lady who died just fucking sucked and that's why literally her entire estate including many other things families usually keep was on sale, but i would like to think perhaps she simply had no other family? a well loved/used object even if all the recipes are for semi-horrifying fifties new england recipes.

the other box, pre-acids but post-washing: this topp trading card box with seven episode one packets of cards was intact with the original seal. i have verified it was not worth much more than the $5 i paid for it with the trading card obsessed man in my best friend's husband's friendgroup. i bought this three months ago but the man was unavailable to open it until uhhh last week. some sort of liquid got inside it at some point and it was super corroded. i was going to store embroidery floss in here but even with all my powers (barkeepers friend. brasso.) i cannot completely remove the corrosion. it's not corroded Through but it looks bad and feels rough. so it goes. it'll probably hold the tiedown straps in my car bc that plastic bucket is rapidly failing

#aaaaaaand we're back baybee!!!#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem #uncharacteristically nervous about this one since there are so many new people haha

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comicweek · 5 months

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Fox’s ad-supported streamer Tubi has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to stream DC movies including “The Batman,” “Suicide Squad,” “Black Adam,” “Wonder Woman” and “Aquaman,” as well as superhero series “Batwoman,” “Gotham” and “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.”

The above film titles, as well as “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” “Green Lantern” and “Wonder Woman 1984,” will hit Tubi’s on-demand lineup in 2024.

Available as of Tuesday are “Batman,” “Batman Returns” and “Batman Forever,” as well as “Superman: The Movie” and “Superman II,” and TV series “Batwoman,” “Gotham” and “Krypton.”

“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” will begin streaming Dec. 31.

Also coming in December are DC animated movies “Batman: Death in the Family,” “DC Showcase: Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam,” “The Death of Superman,” “Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox,” “Son of Batman” and “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies,” plus the series “Stargirl” and “Swamp Thing” and the film “Constantine.”

“The addition of recent blockbuster movies and fan-favorite series from the DC library is a monumental offering for Tubi viewers,” Tubi chief content officer Adam Lewinson said. “We’re so pleased to have such wonderful partners at Warner Bros. Discovery, who are expanding the reach of their superhero franchise films and series that are destined to draw new audiences and fandoms with Tubi’s highly engaged viewers.”

#streaming #tubi #dcu #dc universe #dc comics #black adam #gotham #batman #the batman #arrowverse #batwoman #swamp thing #stargirl #animation #dc animation #wonder woman #aquaman #dceu #FAST

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booasaur · 1 year

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Hi idk if you saw but the The Nevers got moved over to Tubi and they are releasing all episodes like over the span of next week "live" lol whatever that means for tubi but they are playing the episodes that never got released!!

Kind of exciting no? Like I know the show is dead but it would be fun to watch that team one last time

What are your thoughts? Oh I also think all the episodes will be available on Roku in the future too like summer.

And another anon:

Boo, did you see that were finally getting new eps for The Nevers?!?!? New episodes will start on Tuesday feb 14 on Tubi but it sounds like they can only be watched when they’re being “streamed live” and if you don’t catch it the first time around you gotta wait until it’s “aired” again?????

What?? I mean. Wait. Lol, okay, so it's returning, yay. So soon? I'm not prepared! And it's gonna air live on a streamer??? Over a week??

Okay, Monday, THIS Monday, the 13th, it'll just start? Where's the buildup...

All right, so Monday, the 13th, it'll air the first five eps, which all already have aired:

12:39 pm ET The Nevers Ep 101 “Pilot” TV-MA

1:48 pm The Nevers Ep 102 “Exposure” TV-MA

2:53 pm The Nevers Ep 103 “Ignition” TV-MA

3:52 pm The Nevers Ep 104 “Undertaking” TV-MA

4:52 pm The Nevers Ep 105 “Hanged” TV-MA

Then on Tuesday, the 14th, great timing for this show with no promo:

1:28 pm ET The Nevers Ep 106 “True” TV-MA

2:38 pm The Nevers Ep 107 “It’s a Good Day” TV-MA

3:46 pm The Nevers Ep 108 “I Don’t Know Enough About You” TV-MA

4:47 pm The Nevers Ep 109 “Fever” TV-MA

Ep 6 also already having aired so the new eps really start at 2:38pm on Tuesday.

And then on Wednesday, the 15th, rounding off the last eps:

2:40 pm The Nevers Ep 110 “Alright, Okay, You Win” TV-MA

3:45 pm The Nevers Ep 111 “Ain’t We Got Fun” TV-MA

4:50 pm The Nevers Ep 112 “I’ll Be Seeing You” TV-MA

And if you don't catch it during these times, in the middle of the day, you'll have to wait until the next live airing? I mean... I have work. I hope someone rips them.

But no, I am grateful that they're airing at all, considering. Plus, I guess I shouldn't be too negative about Tubi, they're also putting up Genera+ion and Raised by Wolves and other stuff, better to have some home at all than lose the results of all this effort.

Oh, and thanks for letting me know, anons! I guess I gotta get ready for Pen and True!

#replies #femslash related stuff #even if only ever subtext #sent on 20230210 #Anonymous #5 #the nevers #the nevers spoilers #the titles are probably helpful to people smarter than me

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johnnytoons · 8 months

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Welcome back to another “Technicolor ‘Toon Tuesday” my friends! Tonight’s ridiculous rendering features this trippy, tubie dude! Lol! I’ve also included the original ink sketch for comparison. I hope everyone had a terrific Tuesday! 🤪📱🎨

#drawing #ink #cartoonist #illustration #sketch #illustrator #pen #sketchbook #lowbrow #cartoon

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killerandhealerqueen · 6 months

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Please tell me about Oil and Water

Of course!

So, Oil and Water is my CSI: Miami a/b/o fic. It's my first time writing for an American TV show in almost...god, since like high school, so like 5-6 years?

CSI: Miami plays on Tubi every Tuesday and Sunday and it was my favorite of the CSIs when I was younger and as I was watching it, I remembered how much I loved the relationship between Eric and Ryan and how much I loved the show.

So, I decided to take some of my favorite episodes or the episodes that had the best Eric/Ryan relationship and then turn it into a fic with an a/b/o twist.

I really like this fic and I'm surprised at how much love it's getting because the CSI: Miami fandom is pretty dead on ao3. Like a lot of the fics are from like the 2010s, but there are some that are from earlier years, the earliest being 2005. So I was kind of nervous to dip my toes into the water again but people have been really nice and really receptive of it and that makes me really happy

#sass answers #hils 🎃

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end-of-the-world-optimist · 1 year

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"On Friday, it was confirmed that Tubi landed the exclusive streaming rights to the drama series and will stream all six episodes starting Monday, February 13. On top of that, six previously-unseen episodes will air beginning on Tuesday, February 14 starting at 2:38 p.m. ET and wrapping with Episode 12 on Wednesday, February 15 at 4:50 p.m. ET."

Great news!

#the nevers #joss whedon #tubi #hbo #laura donnelly #ann skelly #james norton #tom riley #new episodes!#february 14

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tvrundownusa · 3 months

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tvrundown USA 2024.02.13

Tuesday, February 13th:

(exclusive): Taylor Tomlinson: "Have It All" (netflix, comedy special), Cleaning Up (hulu, Korean crime drama series, all 16 eps), "Sunderland 'Til I Die" (netflix, soccer docuseries, season 3 available)

(movies): "Five Blind Dates" (APrime, rom-com, ~85mins), "Kill Me If You Dare" (netflix, Polish comedy, ~95mins), "My Bloody Galentine" (TUBI, revenge horror, ~105mins)

(streaming weekly): Death and Other Details (hulu), Father Brown (BritBox), Marry My Husband (APrime), Love Deadline (netflix, reality, season 1 finale)

(also new): The Bachelor (ABC, special night, 2hrs), Gospel (PBS, docu-series, night 2/2 finale, 2hrs)

(hour 1): FBI (CBS, season 6 opener), Night Court (NBC) / . / Extended Family (NBC), Celebrity Name That Tune (FOX), Inside the NFL (theCW, season finale), Finding Your Roots (PBS)

(hour 2): FBI: International (CBS, season 3 opener), La Brea (NBC, part 2/2, series finale), The Oval (BET), The Floor (FOX), Whose Line Is It Anyway? (theCW, repeat)

(hour 3): FBI: Most Wanted (CBS, season 5 opener), Quantum Leap (NBC), Good Trouble (Freeform), Zatima (BET)

(hour 4 - latenight): The Graham Norton Show (BBCAm|AcornTV|AMC+)

[preempted, returns next week: America in Black (BET) ]

#FBIcbs #FBIMostWanted #TheBachelorABC #television

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808plus39 · 4 months

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1208. January 15, 2024

Let us stay in bed a bit longer. Even pass morning m. Beyond the normal wake up time. Reality comes into play because the next 4 days require me to go to work. It aches how fast but slow the last 6 months have been. I’d rather have you here than in California.

Regardless if our day means going out to do new things or sitting here on a Tuesday watching whatever is on Tubi. The next few days will feel like a day. Especially with the countdown going off in my head. Let me pause time for a moment. Watching you walk to your gate will be hard. I’m not ready.

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laresearchette · 4 months

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Tuesday, January 09, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES? TMZ PRESENTS: UFO REVOLUTION (Tubi) LOVE & HIP HOP: ATLANTA (MTV Canada) 8:00pm LA BREA (CTV2) 9:00pm CAUGHT IN THE ACT: UNFAITHFUL (MTV Canada) 9:00pm FOUND (City TV) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT BIG LITTLE BRAWLERS (Premiering on January 10 on Discovery Canada at 10:00pm)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA HELLO: KITTY SUPER STYLE! STRAYS

DISNEY + STAR ECHO (Season 1)

NETFLIX CANADA BATMAN BEGINS PETE DAVIDSON: TURBO FONZARELLI

2024 IIHF U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (TSN/TSN4) 2:00pm: Canada vs. Finland

PWHL HOCKEY (TSN5) 7:00pm: Montreal vs. Ottawa

NHL HOCKEY (TSN4) 7:00pm: Sharks vs. Leafs (SNPacific) 7:30pm: Canucks vs. Islanders (TSN3) 8:00pm: Blue Jackets vs. Jets (SN1/SNEast/SNOntario) 8:30pm: Oilers vs. Chicago (SNWest/TSN5) 9:00pm: Sens vs. Flames

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN) 7:30pm: Trail Blazers vs. Knicks (SN Now) 8:30pm: Grizzlies vs. Mavericks (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 10:30pm: Raptors vs. Lakers

THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES (CBC) 8:00pm

MARY MAKES IT EASY (CTV Life) 8:00pm: Casserole With It

MAYDAY (Discovery Canada) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A challenging descent in the Himalayas turns tragic when the pilots miscalculate their approach to a Kathmandu airport.

SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) 8:30pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Mark is eager to begin his final year of elementary school; finally, he'll be at the top of the social food chain; when Mark discovers that he needs glasses, his cool guy dreams come tumbling down.

COMFORT FOOD WITH SPENCER WATTS (CTV Life) 8:30pm: Spencer makes rich spaghetti and jumbo meatballs, a magical Ramen rework, and lastly a souvlaki inspired parpadelle dish.

ONE MORE TIME (CBC) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): When "One More Time's" annual fundraiser delivers a mediocre turnout, DJ goes head-to-head with his rival Carlito, the manager at Sports Dynasty, who is holding a competing event just to mess with OMT.

THE LAZARUS PROJECT (Showcase) 9:00pm: When a catastrophic event severely compromises the Lazarus team's plans, George and Sarah must work together to execute their mission and are forced to go head-to-head with an unyielding Wes.

FULL CIRCLE (CTV Drama) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City. Determined to reverse her family's fate, Mrs. Mahabir enlists Garmen and Aked to kidnap celebrity chef Jeff McCusker's grandson, Jared; Inspector Melody Harmony defies orders and covertly works on the Guyana case.

BEACHFRONT BARGAIN HUNT: RENOVATION (Magnolia Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A Dallas couple is looking for a vacation home that's only a short walk to the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi. They are on a budget and willing to put in the work to renovate a house into a place where they can eventually retire.

COCO CHANEL: UNBUTTONED (Crave) 9:00pm: Capturing the truth of the enigmatic Coco Chanel.

RUN THE BURBS (CBC) 9:30pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The annual yard sale brings an unexpected moral dilemma for Andrew, as Camille deals with Ramesh's overbearing presence.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #this hour has 22 minutes #mary makes it easy #son of a critch #comfort food with spencer watts #one more time #the lazarus project #run the burbs #iihf women's world juniors #pwhl hockey #nhl hockey #nba basketball

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supermarcey · 1 year

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The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 98 – Big Money Rustlas (2010)

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 98 Big Money Rustlas (2010) Batch’s Pick Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/the-tubi-tuesdays-podcast-episode-98-e28093-big-money-rustlas-2010.mp3 Welcome to our podcast series from The Super Network and Pop4D called Tubi Tuesdays Podcast! This podcast series is focused on discovering and doing commentaries/watch a longs for films…

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#Big Money Rustlas #cult classic #ICP #Insane Clown Posse #podcast #The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast #Tubi #Tubi Original #Tubi Tuesdays

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cultfaction · 5 months

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The Haunting At The Old Mill arrives this Tuesday!

The Old Mill, in Dundee Michigan, is haunted by spirits; but what kind of spirits? Are they there for good, or evil? BayView Entertainment will be releasing the paranormal documentary The Haunting At The Old Mill on EST/VOD/SVOD Digital platforms such as Tubi and Flix Fling on 28th November 2023. The Haunting At The Old Mill will also be available to view on AVOD from 1st January 2024. The…

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#Denise Checker #Jeffrey Checker #Nathan Smith #The Haunting At The Old Mill

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 2 days

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tuesday again 5/7/2024

i have Got to read a book i enjoy this week or my brain will turn into something the consistency of dried tomato paste on a kitchen counter

also i have lost track of the timing and rhythm of the seasons so for the first time in a very long time there is no may starred war tuesdaypost

listening

Chapstick by COIN off my weekly recommended spotify playlist. i don��t think this song is particularly interesting or well-executed as a whole, but the lyrics

She’s a friend of mine, and an alibi

And the getaway car in overdrive, like

Hey sharpshooter, I like the way you’re moving

i think the use case for this song is a telecom company trying to get you to switch by promising some portable Bluetooth speakers for your summer parties and this is playing diagetically as we slip in and out of various summer parties, following one TV-hot woman in a sundress

reading

i am once again not sleeping well and have shoved a lot of mediocre books into my gaping maw. i have read a good fuckin chuck of the jason todd outlaws runs. i like jason todd/the red hood bc i feel a certain kinship with someone trained for an incredibly specific thing who are then thrown away the second they stop conforming. darth maul also but that’s a different post.

i have several bones to pick with writer scott lobdell. i know this was the early teens but can we chill with the misogyny for a singular page. why themes of addiction only when it is needed to fill a narrative lull? and why are you continually going to put jason in interesting situations where he might confront his trauma or grow despite his trauma and then. not have him confront his trauma or grow at all because of it??? i like snatches of the early issues of the run, when the outlaws are figuring out how to be a polycule team on the most beautiful deserted island and crashed spaceship you’ve ever seen. i liked the art in most issues and these had just enough fun flashes of character (about every other issue) to keep me reading. but im annoyed by it.

i finally finished Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, the first physical paper book i have finished in a long time. the flaw of being the first in the english detective fiction genre is that everyone who comes after has a lot of time to perfect it. i felt the actual perpetrator was a little beyond belief and the ending was fumbled. however it was very good at sustaining my interest for like 400 pages. not my picture bc i cannot be bothered to find my copy and bother a cat, but this is the penguin edition i own. i don’t actually know if i will keep it on my shelves but maybe it’s more of a trophy of me getting back into reading physical books?

Alexis Hall’s Mortal Follies also annoyed me. i do not think this author’s strong suit is in longer books. i have read previous books in two hours and change and while i found the ending here satisfying from a fairytale perspective, i did not enjoy the path we took to get there. i thought we were ending and wrapping things up at least three times, and the number of Things that happen in order to carry us on to the next Thing does not feel gleefully madcap but sort of frantically shambling. a very classic three-days time limit is introduced in the middle, it is met, and then we continue on for several months. also the author introduces the concept of shipping your friends with an equally made-up word as shipping through one of the more tiresome characters in the novel and this…cracking? chip? in the fourth wall? fucking annoyed me. it felt very out of tone with the rest of the book. surely there was a better way for this character to express that she wanted the two leads to be together

watching

Hammerhead (1968, dir. Miller). this is leaving tubi soon and sometimes the heart needs a silly little James Bond ripoff. had high hopes for this one bc it was rated R and the baddie was obsessed with collecting vintage erotica. i don’t really know why this is rated R. the erotica we see is almost all prints of Fine Art Nudes. there’s a lot of cleavage and undergarments and bikinis but not like. full frontal at any point. no man has their chest out except for an enterprising motorcyclist near the end.

anyway this is a deeply unserious film, as you may surmise. it’s not much fun, especially when it’s not very good at getting everyone to the next scene. Vince Edwards is kind of a cold fish, i do not know why every woman is throwing herself at him. Judy Geeson makes every scene she’s in better (there’s a very funny scene in a post office where they play both keepaway and the thimble game with an important package) but she cannot hold the whole dragging movie up by herself. god they made leading ladies fucking tiny back then. very throwable

playing

not fallow but i don’t have anything interesting to say about genshin this week. a friend started playing fnv after several months of subtle hints, i was only able to join his streams after twenty hours in and promptly let him know the inventory is sortable if you click at the top. how had he been going through his whole fucking inventory for twenty hours like that. a man singularly obsessed with both inventory management and min-maxing caps. he had like 8k caps by the time he got to Novac, taking the normal route. people sure can play games in different ways huh

making

put some dijon mustard and some broccoli in some macaroni and cheese. that's about it

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem #an important thing to ask yourself as a grownup responsible for your own care and keeping is: am i having fun? and the answer is no the fuc #i am not!

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