#anti jamie hunter

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Man, remember when interesting differences between Callie and her boyfriend was "No this is how you achieve a socialist utopia" and not "Actually, homelessness should be criminalised"

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Django Unchained Vol. 1 #7

Art by Alex Ross

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The Name List

Organized from A-Z (yes I will add more names whenever I find more I like, probably in reblogs)

I currently have 1035 names (and that’s only including the first names. I have a list of last names, too.)

Angel, Atticus, Atlas, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Achilles, Artemis, Adonis, Avery, Aubrey, Aubry, Aceline, Ashlynn, Aislinn, Anjanette, Arthur, Archer, Addison, Arrietty, Amity, Autumn, Alastor, Alastair, Alasdair, Alistair, Alison, Arren, Arin, Astra, Aoife, Adalyn, Adeleine, Astoria, Agnes, Angus, Abigail, Ann, Anne, Ambrose, Adeline, Avarsel, Agatha, Ari, Azariah, Aniyah, Armani, Anastasia, Annabelle, Adah, Adelaide, Avis, Amelia, August, Axel, Adelina, Amir, Amin, Ayala, Arne, Averett, Adil, Astro, Ava, Anti, Ailun, Akemi, Asahi, Akari, Asako, Atsuko, Azumi, Aka, Aren, Akko

Blossom, Bambi, Babs, Bo, Bella, Blair, Bea, Bonnabel, Badeea, Betty, Bailey, Boris, Bee, Bugs, Blaise, Benjamin, Bog, Buford, Beatrice, Bryce, Bryan, Bazil, Brutus, Bellamy, Brigitte, Bailee, Bailey, Bao, Belladona, Belladonna, Bell, Bill, Bishop, Bones, Boneothy, Benno, Behemoth, Barry, Bellynn, Bowie, Bunki

Clover, Canyon, Cleo, Cameron, Celestial, Celestino, Ciro, Camilo, Cain, Charlotte, Clara, Corey, Cin, Charlie, Cassidy, Chiara, Callista, Cisco, Cynthia, Casper Clinton, Celestina, Clement, Christopher, Cornelius, Clifford, Claudius, Carey, Carrie, Coatl, Cyrus, Cyril, Cecil, Caisus, Castiel, Calla, Cosmos, Cherry, Cheryl, Crowley, Crow, Cassius, Cliodna, Clíodhna, Cliona, Conan, Cordelia, Calypso, Cas, Cillian, Chiyo, Chiaki, Chihiro, Calcifer

Danny, Darlene, Dex, Dot, Diana, Daphne, Demeter, Daedalus, Daeddel, Darphel, Dawn, Derrick, Derek, Dravan, Dravid, Drae, Dallas, Dimas, Dominic, Damien, Drew, Delilah, Dakota, Darian, Darius, Darwin, Devan, Darla, Dagmar, Daelyn, Dale, Dae, Dacey, Desmond, Dabria, Daniel, Daniela, Danialla, David, Davis, Donnel, Dennis, Demitrius, Delaney, Daiki, Daiyu

Everest, Emery, Ember, Elliott, Elliot, Earlana, Eliseo, Ezequiel, Emie, Evan, Eloise, Eric, Emmet, Elizabeth, Eugene, Ethan, Eret, Ester, Elias, Eos, Ellis, Edwin, Ebony, Elijah, Eliza, Enzo, Elissa, Edward, Eddalyn, Esther, Eda, Edalyn, Edalynn, Edison, Eddison, Estervan, Emma, Eden, Erfan, Eun-hae, Erytheia, Egan, Errol, Eiichi, Eiji, Eriko, Etsu, Etsuko, Eiichiro, Ezume

Flint, Finn, Fae, Fred, Fritz, Fang, Frankie, Frank, Fermin, Freddie, Freddy, Finley, Freya, Fai, Felix, Freda, Faolan, Frey, Feylynn, Faelynn, Failynn, Felipa, Febby, Febbie, Febie, Feby, Flynn, Fuji, Feiyu, Fukiko, Fumitaka, Fumito, Fuyuko

Griffin, Garnet, Gothi, Gertrude, Gabe, Grant, Giovanni, George, Gage, Gregory, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Guy, Gilbert, Guadalupe, Gerry, Grey, Gray, Gia, Grace, Gracian, Gracis, Gracie, Gretel, Gideon, Griffilow, Ghost, Ghazaleh, Gavin, Gryphon, Griffith, Goliath, Grayson, Greyson

Harmony, Hannah, Harlei, Harlie, Haritha, Haris, Harry, Harlan, Harvey, Hadrian, Harley, Hari, Harlow, Howl, Hank, Harper, Herbert, Humphrey, Hestia, Helios, Hephaestus, Hollis, Hunter, Hero, Henry, Helda, Hajar, Hasta, Hadis, Howard, Howie, Hannan, Haoyu, Hisako, Hachi, Hiroto, Hoshiko, Honoka, Hiroshi, Hiro, Haitao, Hamako, Haruhi, Harue, Hayate, Hide, Hideyo, Hidetaka, Hisaye, Hisayo, Heiji, Higari

Ivy, Ivey, Ivo, Ida, Iris, Ilyssa, Illy, Irene, Iren, Isaiah, Ira, Idelle, Ivan, Illaoi, Isabel, Isabell, Isabelle, Isobell, Isabella, Ismelda, Io, Ismael, Isolt, Icarus, izuru, Isamu, Itona, Ichiro, Ichiko, Ichigo, Isoko, Ishiko, Isaye, Inari, Ikuko, Itsuki, Itsuko, Inosuke

Juniper, Jupiter, Jinx, Jamie, Javier, Josiah, Joan, Jake, Julia, Jamil, Jamila, Jesse, Jessie, Jess, Jasper, Janus, Jordan, Joshua, Julian, Juilliard, Julius, Juliana, Jeremiah, Jace, June, Junebug, Jazzy, Jackson, Jackie, Jackalynn, Jodie, Johnnie, Jan, Jaime, Jason, Jorge, Justin, Justice, John, Jay, Janelle, James, Jennifer, Jillion, Jill, Jana, Jonah, Jaycee, Jaxen, Junpei, Jona, Jun, Jin

Kenneth, Kat, Kas, Kris, Keith, Kingston, Kaeton, Kingsley, Kent, Katherine, Kyle, Knox, Kristen, Kristin, Kristeen, Kylie, Kaylee, Kamila, Kehlani, Kendall, Kerry, Kry, Kenny, Kath, Kathleen, Krow, Kix, Kedrick, Kennon, Klaus, Killian, Korallia, Krank, Kaz, Kaede, Kirara, Katsuhiko, Keisuke, Kanako, Kenji, Kaemon, Kamin, Katsu, Kaki, Kazane, Kazuyuki, Kazushige, Kenta, Kei, Kimi, Kin, Kohako, Koichi, Kota, Koji, Koharu, Kosuke, Kuma, Kumi, Kuniko, Kuniyuki, Kideko, Kazuko

Lullaby, Lotte, Lapin, Lorelei, Loralai, Lorelai, Luna, Lily, Lucy, Lee, Liana, Lola, Lethe, Lance, Laurence, Luther, Luca, Lennon, Logan, Lennox, Ilias, Liu, Lui, Luis, Lefu, Liam, Lyall, Lowell, Luella, Leona, Leonie, Leon, Lev, Lincoln, Lin, Link, Laverna, Lazarus, Lewis, Louis, Louise, Levi, Leslie, Lesley, Leilana

Marley, Marlai, Mei, May, Mae, Marceline, Marshall, Marshalee, Millie, Mallorie, Marcela, Melanie, Maddison, Mary, Mirabel, Marsh, Murphy, Montgomery, Mildred, Memphis, Molly, Maverick, Maurice, Muiris, Morgen, Max, Moses, Marion, Merrill, Monroe, Melanthios, Maxwell, Matias, Melissa, Maëlle, Marlene, Meredith, Maybelle, Margaret, Maeve, Moss, Mara, Maria, Myrtle, Mona, Mark, Markus, Michael, Micheal, Michelle, Mahsa, Minoo, Mehdi, Mohammad, Matin, Morpheus, Marlowe, Monica, Marilia, Magnus, Malachi, Malachy, Maggie, Makoto, Megumi, Mio, Maemo, Maemi, Masa, Masaaki, Masashi, Michi, Midori, Michinori, Momo, Motoko

Natasha, Noelle, Noni, Neville, Nixon, Neda, Natalio, Ned, Nausicaä, Noxis, Nova, Nathen, Newt, Noah, Nash, Nox, Nathara, Nathaira, Nathair, Nyoka, Nagisa, Nathan, Nate, Nik, Nick, Naohiro, Naoko, Nara, Natsu, Naoya, Nishi, Nobuko, Nori

Olindo, Ollie, Oliver, Ophelia, Odysseus, Orion, Osono, Oxen, Onyx, Otto, Ottoline, Otitile, Ottavia, Octavio, Olivia-Marie, Oakley, Omar, Olivia, Oscar, Octavian, Octavia, Oz, Octavius, Otta, Oisin, Orson, Orlos, Osiris, Owen, Odalis, Odell, Ozuru

Penelope, Patton, Paddy, Percy, Paulie, Page, Pazu, Phoebe, Phebe, Prairie, Porter, Parlay, Pally, Piper, Parker, Payton, Phil, Paul, Philip, Pyre, Piers, Phylis, Patricia, Payne, Payneton, Pip

Quinn, Quincy, Quil, Quinley, Quinstin, Quinlan, Quillen, Quavon, Quaylon, Quensley, Qing, Qrow, Quilla, Quianna, Quita, Qiao, Quinella, Queenie, Qaylah, Qailah, Qitarah, Quenby, Qadira, Qudsiyah, Quan, Qian, Quinby, Quella

Roseline, Raul, Rahul, Rafael, Roque, Rogelio, Remmy, Rei, Rey, Ray, Robin, Ro, Reika, Rowen, Rowan, Rose, Rosie, Ralsei, Riley, Remus, Rosalyn, Rosalin, Rosaline, Renata, Ron, Rat, Ratt, Reef, Roxy, River, Reed, Rufus, Robbie, Renee, Rivia, Ross, Rex, Ruth, Rosemary, Rosabe, Rosabee, Rosabell, Rosabelle, Rosabel, Rai, Rain, Rosella, Rosalie, Rhody, Robert, Raelinn, Rebane, Ren, Rollin, Ralph, Roxanne, Rox, Roderick, Reginald, Reggie, Rio, Ryu, Ryo, Ryoji, Rinmaru

Sage, Sam, Syd, Selkie, Storig, Sal, Sirius, Summer, Susie, Scott, Sunni, Sosuke, Sophie, Satsuki, Sheeta, San, Sulley, Sully, Savannah, Sappho, Selene, Shaw, Sean, Seán, Shaun, Sawyer, Sabrina, Sebastian, Shane, Stan, Socks, Snom, Stolas, Spencer, Sammie, Stevie, Samus, Sarff, Sullivan, Seth, Susiebell, Susiebelle, Sadreddin, Shellaine, Sverre, Saoirse, Sylvania, Sanae, Silas, Sumi, Shiori, Shinzu, Sile

Toby, Tobias, Teddy, Ted, Tomas, Thomas, Tomothy, Tyche, Taiga, Tundra, Tracy, Timothy, Troy, Tatum, Tommie, Tommy, Theia, Tae, Trix, Trixy, Thanathos, Tod, Todd, Toddy, Tora, Torie, Theodore, Theo, Theophania, Talos, Thanatos, Teddy, Tomohito, Tazu, Tanjirou, Touya

Ulysses, Urijah, Uriyah, Urina, Ukiah, Ulnar, Ursula, Ulric

Virgil, Vanessa, Vito, Venacio, Vylad, Veronica, Valentina, Violet, Velma, Venus, Verna, Veld, Victoria, Victorie, Vinyl, Vincent, Vasuki, Vex, Valor, Valentine, Valerie, Valeria, Valerius, Vitoria, Vic, Victor, Vik, Vikktor, Viktor, Vick, Vicky, Vicke, Vickie, Vidya

Wynn, Willow, Warren, Wilbur, Wylie, Will, Walle, Whisp, Wade, Wendell, Wendy, Willard, Wes, Wallace, Wilber, Wyatt, Wybie, Wynnie, Wennie, Winnie, Wynnston, Wynston, Wynsten, Wiles

Xenophon, Xuan, Xio, Xori, Xanthos, Xander, Xavier

Yen, Yukio, Yae, Yoko, Yume, Yaeko, Yui, Yuzuki

Zane, Zana, Zion, Zachary, Zach, Zachariah, Zander, Ziana, Zoe, Zula, Zenix, Zenith, Zaharia, Zaria, Zack, Zakaeia, Zara, Zakaria, Zev, Zaira, Zanata

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You’re writing is so amazing, literally love everything you put out!! Do you have any romance book recommendations?!? Literally anything, I fully trust your judgement lol😌

Omigosh! First, thank you so much for the compliment. Second, I got you.

*whips out Kindle*

I've broken it down into categories. Here we go:

Contemporary Line of Duty Series, Tessa Bailey - If I want something quick, down, and dirty I reach for her. I recommend starting with her Line of Duty Series, which features the most delicious rough and tumble cops finding love.

The Coppersmith Farmhouse, Devney Perry - I adore this small town, enemy-to-lovers romance featuring a single mother and the local sheriff. Sheriff Jess can be an ass, but he grovels well. The Game Maker Series, Kresley Cole - Centers around three Russian brothers who have ties to the mafia. While each man is different and beautifully broken in his own way, they all believe in taking what they want. And once one of the Sevastyan's have set their sights on you, they will not take no for an answer. They're also not opposed to kidnapping either. The Italian, T.L. Swan - What happens when a summer fling ends up being so much more than that? This romance tells the story of an Italian mafia boss and his forbidden love with an Australian tourist. There's sex, angst, danger and so much more.

Historical *Outlander Series, Diana Gabaldon - Claire and Jamie's love literally transcends both time and space. This series contains an amazing romance, well researched historical descriptions, elements of magic, and so much more.

Paranormal The Psy Changeling Series, Nalini Singh - If you love stories about shifters and people with psychic abilities then I totally recommend checking out this series. Slave to Sensation is the first book, and premise goes something like: the ruling Psy prefer to exist in a world devoid of feelings and emotions, but what happens when one of their own finds herself craving something only Lucas Hunter, the alpha of the Dark River Shifters, can provide? *The Guild Hunter Series, Nalini Singh - Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but with Angels. This series is amazing and the love story between Raphael (the Archangel of New York) and his precious mortal, Elena (who is a badass in her own right). The world building is fantastic, the romance is hot, and each book only gets better. And believe me when I say, these are not your grandmother's angels. I also love the fact that you get to watch their relationship grow and evolve across multiple books. *The Night Huntress Series, Jeaniene Frost - Also has a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe, except the heroine is actually half-vampire herself. Bones, her eventual love interest, reminds me of Spike. Just a little bit. And just like the previous series, their romance spans multiple books. Also the love scenes are fabulous. *The Fever Series, Karen Marie Moning - If you love reading about heroines trying to solve mysterious disappearances, the Seelie and Unseelie Fae, and a delicious Alpha Male that could just easily rip you apart as well as fuck you - I'm looking at you, Jericho Barrons - then check this out. This series requires a little commitment because the romance, while hinted at, doesn't start until you're a couple of books in. But it's so worth it because you're rewarded with a territorial, possessive, darkly handsome anti-hero. *The Highlander Series, Karen Marie Moning - If you're a sucker for men in kilts, ancient curses, time travel, and drop-dead-sexy highlanders who fall hard for their modern day mates then please read. Also, some of these heroes go on to appear in the Fever Series as well. Immortals After Dark Series, Kresley Cole - Another great one This one features characters from every corner of the lore. I'm talking vampires, witches, valkyries, berserkers, demons, werewolves, succubi, and more. The men are swoon worthy and the women are badass. But what I especially love is the creativity and humor she manages to weave throughout her stories. She uses the fated mates trope quite a bit, which I love. However, what makes it great is that a lot of times the men show up like: "You belong to me now. I'm ready to take you to home" and their brides-to-be are like "Fuck off. Come any closer and I will stab you/shoot you/light you on fire". And what's more...they absolutely follow-thru. Those heroes have to earn their women. Oh, and the sexy times are good and spicy.

Hope this helps! If you or anyone else decides to read a book from this list, please let me know what you think!

*Indicates Book Boyfriend

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the truth about being transgender: my detransition story - jamie

This is a weird video for me to make, but it's something that I've spoken about on this channel before, and that is the fact that I used to believe - or I used to be - trans and since then I have the transitioned. This video is not intended to be transphobic, I'm just talking about my own experience and issues with the LGBT community.

I was very young when I started feeling issues with my body and my self-esteem. I was maybe eight or nine when I hit puberty, and it was around this time that my anxiety started, then I started feeling discomfort within myself. And when I got into high school, I fell in with an LGBT friend group.

In this friend group, everyone sort of aligned their identities so fully with their sexuality or their gender that I began to believe that this was normal, that it was normal to have your sort of only personality trait being your gender or your sexuality. And this was how a lot of them self-identified. I fully remember many of my friends saying, oh, my only personality trait is that I'm gay or whatever. And that was the way that I thought friendships, and that I thought people were supposed to be.

That we were in this righteous bubble, that defied societal conventions. And when I saw the idols that my friends looked up to - people like Elliot page or Hunter Schaefer - I would see posts from trans people that say essentially, I struggled with my body a lot when I was younger and then I finally realized that I was trans and I decided to fully transition - i.e. double mastectomy or bottom surgery - and then I finally felt happy.

And when you're young you don't really tend to assess the information that you take in. At least for me, when I saw that information, I thought to myself - not instantly but over time you come to think - okay well that is the solution solution to issues with your body and issues with your femininity. So I decided very very early in my life, I think as soon as I was 12 or 13, that the second I turned 16 or 18 or I had raised enough money, I would essentially run away from home and get a double mastectomy and go on testosterone, because I was non-binary, or I believed I was non-binary, and I did not feel comfortable in being feminine.

Now, my parents weren't even necessarily against trans people but the whole culture of LGBT teens is that you are in some ways misunderstood by your parents. Tthat's sort of the way that you perceive yourself to be, or how you perceive your relationship with your parents to be. Whether or not you know they're supportive or anti-trans. I know now that my parents love me no matter what, but still I would find reasons to resent them and to find excuses to isolate myself further and further from them. Probably because this is what my friends were also doing and what a lot of the people I admired went through too, like issues with their parents. Which is really sad looking back on it.

I'm very very skeptical of a movement that directly or indirectly - this is a very charged vocabulary, I don't intend it to be sort of criminalizing them - but I'm very skeptical of a movement that isolates children from their parents and makes them question their parenting and almost encourages them to step away, and to have a "found family" rather than cooperating with and trying to understand your already family.

And it's true too, that I had a terrible relationship with my parents and with the rest of my family when I identified as trans. It was very very easy to fall into the mindset of, no one understands me, I'm from a different generation, my issues are completely unique to me. But the truth is that when I spoke about it later on, after, with a few of the women in my family, they too have struggled with feeling feminine in their younger years. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're trans.

And this is one of the biggest issues that I have at the moment. I think it's posited as a solution, when really the solution is something else entirely, or rather a teaching of like self-acceptance, in a way.

No one ever explained to me that puberty would be a difficult time emotionally. I knew, of course that hormones were high and my body would change, but that was about it. No one ever told me that it's a strange feeling going from childhood to adulthood. And the difficulty of that does not point necessarily to your gender identity, it just points to your own discomfort and mental health.

I publicly identified as trans or non-binary for four years until I was, I think 15 or 16, and after which I made an Instagram post that said I'm not trans anymore, and then I deleted Instagram, and I sort of isolated myself for a very long time, because whether or not it was real, I sort of perceived the whole wide world to be against me. So I had sort of built myself into this little victim mindset where I thought that - because of course people didn't fully understand the fact that I was non-binary, a lot of people did not because we were 12 and 13 and this was a new thing - but I took that very very personally and I took that to mean that they were against me, when they probably weren't.

And so I assumed that the people who had been my friends when I was trans would stop being my friends after I stopped being trans. Which was true my LGBT friend group pretty much instantly disowned me, and I them to some extent, because I was slowly coming to terms with the fact that I did not want to be friends with people who I consider to be superficial. But that's another issue and not one that I'll talk about publicly.

The next couple of years after I publicly detransitioned were very very hard. It was really difficult to re-establish myself knowing that I had made such a huge mistake, and that was probably amplified by my own feelings of depression, social anxiety, and I don't think I ever fully reintegrated back into like high school society after that, because I found it really embarrassing. It was a difficult thing to have gone through so young and to base your whole identity around. And it's such a big thing that when you realize that you're no longer that thing, the people around you just turn essentially. They think that you've been lying to get attention, which I don't believe I was at the time. I think I was just heavily heavily misguided, and being so young I was so impressionable.

I read recently that it takes 14 times of being told something for a child to believe it, and so I suppose it could have just been that I was told so many times it's possible that you're trans, it's possible that you're trans, that eventually I started to believe it. And this is nothing against the LGBT community, but I know a lot of people with stories similar to mine, both personally and online. But no one really talks about them. No one really talks about the rising amount of young women who at some point consider themselves trans, either medically transitioned or didn't, and then came to regret it.

The only real time I've heard this discussed publicly or online was through a Joe Rogan podcast with Abigail Shrier who's also written a fantastic book that she basically says that, to some extent - and this is nothing against the transgender community - but to some extent, being transgender now is to depressed teenage girls what, say, anorexia was in the 90s, or drugs were in the 70s. It's what girls who have home problems, who have issues with their body, who have issues with their family, it's what they turn to as a solution for their Identity. Or not solution, but what they base their identity around.

To me, this is so convincing because I can see it now, how incredibly high the levels of transgender people are rising, particularly amongst young teenage girls. I mean it's unprecedented. It's a several thousand percent increase in the last 20-30 years, and you have to consider that some of that must be cultural, and some of that must be societal. I don't think it happens organically that such a huge percentage of young girls just wake up one day and realize that they're trans. I don't think that that's organic. I think that that is motivated in some way, whether they perceive it to be that way or not.

But the trouble with this is, despite the fact that I date women - not exclusively - I don't identify as being part of the LGBT community. Because to me the LGBT community, or the one that I have experienced, clings so much to its (political) beliefs and to its system and its agenda of sort of self-victimization, and attacking anyone who disagrees with this experience. This is true of a lot of detransitioners. I can't personally agree with it. I don't think it's right to attack anyone who doesn't agree with your specific dogma.

And this is in no way to an attack. If anything, it's me speaking about my own experience in, not officially, but rather leaving the LGBT community. And it's a difficult thing to talk about. I know that a lot of people will probably resent me for putting out this video, despite the fact that I've tried to stay as true to my own emotions and experiences as possible. But I do it with no malice in my heart. If anything I do out of empathy for other young girls who are like me, who see this as the new solution to their issues with themselves and their femininity.

Every day I am so so grateful that like my parents didn't have enough money for me to medically transition at 12 or 13, or that I didn't run away from home and decide to have a double mastectomy. Or even that it's difficult for young people in the UK to go through these treatments, that you have to wait so long. Because if I had not had to wait so long on the NHS, I would have regretted it so much.

In the past couple of years my femininity has brought me so so much and I never would have been able to experience that had I not de-transitioned and taken the time to really consider my own identity. And I know I'm not alone because I personally have at least five to ten friends that have all done this, to some greater or lesser extent. And I think the statistics mirror this too. It's something like a majority of people who transition are equally as depressed as they were before than they are after, and I think the percentage of suicide goes up very very highly five years and after medical transition for a large percentage of people. Which is interesting to me because it was always posited as a life-saving surgery to have top or bottom surgery. And I think it's such a huge decision to make without having been told the other side of it.

Things like testosterone. They tell you that it's not permanent, but it is. If you take a look at some of the public detransitioners who have been on testosterone, who have become infertile because of it - because that is an inevitable side effect of testosterone - who experience joint pains their whole life, chronic pain, fevers, anything like that. It's something that I wouldn't wish on anyone to look back and realize that they made a mistake. It's such a huge and irreversible mistake to make that, if anything I say can help people consider whether it makes them truly happy, then my goal is achieved.

All I really want is for people, young women especially, to, before they make any permanent decisions, take a long long look inwards. Heal your mental health first of all. That is the biggest thing I think, heal your mental health, and then consider if you still feel uncomfortable within your own sexuality or gender. Because for me, after I healed my mental health, I feel almost no inclination towards masculinity or androgyny. And I think that's the case for a lot of people who experience depression in their earlier years, but then change as they get older.

It's a terrible mistake to make, and one I hope that is made a lot less often. Obviously it's not a mistake for everyone, I'm not talking about everyone, I'm talking about the select few who are socially pushed or socially nudged into it. I'm so grateful every single day that I did not make any medical choices that would have affected me my whole life now. Because if I had had the choice when I was 12 or 13, I fully fully would have believed, yes I want to be infertile my whole life, just for this. And now having children is like my number one goal in life, it's my biggest goal, it's my dream now to have children. And it breaks my heart that that could have been taken away from me, if I had been encouraged just a little bit more by my parents or by the system or the NHS or anything like that.

But yeah, this video has no hate towards trans people. I just want everyone to consider my own perspective and my own experience as someone who has de-transitioned and having been on both sides og deep deep within the LGBT community, and then having left it, having stopped being depressed, having come to a lot more happiness in my life.

And yeah, again I only send love and hope and peace out to all of you, and I hope that you find peace within yourself if you're watching this video and yeah, love you, bye.

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Very eloquent, thoughtful, insightful and self-aware from this young woman.

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Since I drew Marvin I figured the rest of the Monster AU should get to shine lol. Here's the rainbow of bois, though they're slightly different than how you may remember... a reminder of which is what below the cut!

Jackie: Red, Angel, assigned to Chase before Chase died. Personification of guardianship/protection. Heroic but insecure.

Jack: Orange, werewolf ex monster hunter. May have worked for this AU's IRIS in the past. Has had dealings with demons in the past.

Chase: Yellow, Turned into a Vampire to save his life, now lives with Henrik under strict supervision.

Anti: Green, Demon, personification of fear, likes to control/hurt other supernatural beings, sleep paralysis demons are his bitches.

Jamie: Light Blue, Reaper, personification of time. Captured at one point by Anti, cautious and quiet.

Henrik: Dark Blue, Born a Vampire, a doctor who uses his position to get blood for his own purposes. Has a mansion in his name and dedicates his freetime to sciences of life and death.

Robbie: A frankenstein like creation made by Henrik and Marvin. Taught how to interact with people by Chase. Very protective of his family, however curious and naïve he is.

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That last au concept is actually really cool! Do you have anything else for it? Any idea what the other egos might be?

I was thinkin about Anti’s backstory and how he killed the vampire hunter who gave him that scar and that vampire hunter is either Jack or Jackie. Otherwise, I haven’t thought about who Chase or Marv would be.

It’s one of those AUs that I would say will never get a proper plot or anything, but it’s fun to think about all the scenarios in it like Jamie walking into Henrik’s new bedroom and dropping a sign language book on his desk and walking out leaving Henrik confused and forced to learn if he wants to communicate at all with Jamie or Henrik finding the castle empty and he’s terrified that he’s been left behind to wait for Anti to find him only to find Jamie hanging from the chandelier above him the whole time napping as a giant bat or when Anti finally does find them and Jamie is doin his best to fend him off but Anti is the older vampire and Jamie is fucking terrified and Anti taunts him like “don’t you remember who taught you all these tricks?” with his sharp and seemingly longer fangs gleaming in the moonlight and also Jamie tending to his pumpkins on gloomy days with an umbrella or at night scaring off possums n other animals

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I watched Netflix's Day Shift last night, the Action/Horror/Comedy, that see's Jamie Foxx as a vampire hunter named Bud Jablonski.

SPOILERS/SPOILERS/SPOILERS/SPOILERS

This film is very conservative. Bud is a working man with a family to support, except the meager money he's getting from his vampire hunting work means that his marriage is on the rocks and his wife and kid might move away to Florida.

The reason for Bud's poor wages; he has been kicked out of The Union, a vampire hunting guild, that demands that Bud's work adheres to obscene levels of bureaucracy. Big John (played by Snoop Dogg) helps Bud get back into the Union so he can make some quick money, to avoid losing his family. Part of the deal with The Union, is that Bud must be accompanied by the field-adverse union rep, Seth (Dave Franco).

Seth is a gun-fearing, rule-obsessed coward, who pisses himself every time he encounters a vampire. A conservative's idea of a liberal/leftist. Seth is a plant by The Union to report Bud as soon as he breaks any Union rule, to kick him out again.

Meanwhile, the centre of power in the vampire world of LA is shifting. Ruthless Latina vampire, Audrey San Fernando (Karla Souza) has plans to take over, which includes burying the previously powerful European vampires under cement, recklessly converting humans into vampires, and manufacturing a vampire sunscreen which will allow them to do more daytime attacks and take over. She also has a vendetta against Bud because he killed her daughter.

So let's talk conservatism in Day Shift. Firstly there's the anti-union sentiment of this film. Bud just can't survive as a hard working man outside of the Union, and even when he does work with the Union, his wages get siphoned away through Dues and other Union fees, by bureaucrats who sit behind a desk all day (implying a parasitic relationship).

Secondly, Seth's caricature of the liberal crybaby, who literally gets called a Snowflake at one point, is supposed to be entirely pitiful, until his arc makes him reject his non-violent nature, and ultimately choose to work the field as a vampire hunter, than as a desk jockey. He gives up his liberalism to become a Real Man.

Thirdly, I have strong feelings that Bud Jablonski and Big John were written as white characters, before casting Foxx and Dogg. Despite the hip hop soundtrack, Bud and John's blackness is not integral to the plot of this movie. If anything it's there to abstract the film's blatant conservatism. And it's not the only race aspect of this film.

Which takes us to my fourth point, while there are many types of vampires in this film, our problem is identified as the Latino Vampires. One of Bud's first kills in the film is identified as a Mexican vampire (and based on the pricing he is offered for their fangs, they are concidered a low-class of vampire), and also our main antagonist, Audrey, is definitively Latina. She is ruthless not just to the humans, but to other vampires, as previously mentioned, burying the European vampires under cement in her quest for power.

The specific threat she poses is one of contamination, and eventual takeover. Hey look folks, it's The Great Replacement Theory.

Also before we move away from the race politics of Day Shift, I want to quickly mention the characters, The Nazarian Twins. They are big burly men's men. Very effective killers of vampires, and based on the accents, I would say Eastern European coded. While they are clearly on the same skill level as Bud and Big John, there is a bit of Weird Foreigner in them highlighted by them sharing the same wad of chewing gum. As much as they can kick as much ass as our protagonist, they aren't American enough to be the heroes.

To wrap up, Day Shift is a story about labour, and about the dangers of foreign takeover upon our family values and livelihoods. It is on par with the Zombieland films for using horror imagery, and conservative comedy, to tell a Fox News friendly narrative.

And I didn't even touch on things like how Vampire Hunting is Free Market, killing the vampires for profit rather than community protection (or it would be if it wasn't for the regulations), or how giving a shit that the vampires were once human, converted against their will, is consider woke by Bud. So add Anti-Regulation, and Anti-woke to the conservative counter for Day Shift.

As a leftist, can't say I recommend this one.

[w0niecult]

I am very aware of how anti hunting i am, but every time i see james in his hunting gear all of it goes out the window. i am prepared to be his little housewife who makes him a big meal when he comes home from a hunt and help him with the deer he caught <3 i am but a wife for mr hetfield i swear

R E A L NONNIE

I am nothing but a dumb lil housewife ready to serve and take care of my man🤭🤭🤭

I’m currently working on more hunter!jamie x nymph!reader content😌🫶

[whimsicaldragonette]

ARC Review: Liar City by Allie Therin

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Publication Date: February 28, 2023

Synopsis:

A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to find the killer before it's too late It’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his help. At an out-of-the-way Seattle marina, he discovers that three people have been butchered—including the author of the country’s strictest anti-empathy bill, which is just days from being passed into law. Soon, Reece’s caller a shadowy government agent known as The Dead Man, who is rumored to deal exclusively in cases involving empathy. He immediately takes over the investigation, locking out both local PD and the FBI, but, strangely, keeps Reece by his side.  As the two track an ever-growing trail of violence and destruction across Seattle, Reece must navigate a scared and angry city, an irritating attraction to his mysterious agent companion, and a rising fear that perhaps empaths like him aren’t all flight and no fight after all…

My Rating: ★★★★★

*My Review and Favorite Quotes below the cut.

My Review:

I don't usually read murder mysteries, but I really enjoyed this one. Allie Therin knows how to write great characters and a compelling, twisty plot of empaths and danger. I was kept guessing as the story progressed, and kept on the edge of my seat the whole time. I love the hints of slow-burn future romance, sown in a relationship of slowly growing trust. Reece is prickly and difficult and full to the brim with sarcasm (that constantly gets him and his sister in trouble). Evan Grayson - the Dead Man - is mysterious and brooding and competently takes charge of any situation and intimidates everyone into doing what he says. They make a wonderful combination (and argue constantly). Jamie is the best sister and detective and I'm so glad she has Liam to anchor her. I will absolutely be picking up the next book as soon as it is available. Highly recommend. *Thanks to NetGalley and Carina Adores for providing an early copy for review.

Favorite Quotes:

“Pacifist and polite aren’t actually synonyms,” he said weakly.

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“Do you practice being an enigma? Look at me, the mysterious Dead Man; I speak in riddles and have weird elevator manners, fear me empaths?”

[azurecanary]

Whomst in the Good Trouble writers' room thought it was a good idea to pair Callie up with a conservative???? Especially when she has two perfectly good love interests just right there.

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Ken Jeong Drama ‘Great Divide’ Tackles Anti-Asian Racism Of Covid Era

Great Divide, which explores the wave of anti-Asian racism that sprang up in the wake of Covid, has wrapped principal photography on location in Jackson, WY.

The film, about a Korean American family that leaves the Bay Area for the rural expanses of Wyoming in the early days of lockdown, features Emerson Min as Benjamin Lee, a young boy struggling with the trauma of loss during the pandemic.

Ken Jeong and Jae Suh Park play Isaac and Jenna Lee, Benjamin’s parents, each of whom has a different agendas for their move to Wyoming — Isaac has a new job, Jenna wants to ensure that Benjamin gets into the college of her choice. MeeWha Alana Lee plays Grandma Shim, Jenna’s mother, who has an important lesson to impart to her beloved grandson and a lifetime of memories to share with him before it’s too late. Miya Cech is Ellie Licht, Benjamin’s best friend and maybe more, a Chinese adoptee whose protective parents have shielded her from the darker sides of the world.

Meanwhile, the less-than-welcoming residents of small-town Wyoming include West Mulholland as Hunter Drake, a young potential classmate of Benjamin’s who begins as a bully but ends up warming to Benjamin and Ellie. Seamus Dever plays Ranger Tom Drake, Hunter’s brutal father, who plots with Wyatt (Marshall Allman) to drive the Lees out of town. And Jamie McShane is George McNather, the last surviving descendant of the town’s founding family, a generous benefactor to “his” people and a deeply suspicious and hostile nemesis to those from the “outside.”

(via Deadline)

[luna-colony]

about us

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Basic info for mobile users!

BASIC INFORMATION.

Full name: Jennifer Sarah-Monique Blake.  Sarah Monique Miller (Winchester). Nickname(s): Marah.  Claims it’s the name of her twin sister who no one’s ever met or even seen. Age: 18-30s, thread dependent. Birth date: October 5th, 1982. Birth place: Providence, Rhode Island. Ethnicity: White. Nationality: American. Gender: Cisgender female. Pronouns: She/her. Sexuality: Bisexual/biromantic. Current location: All over the place.  Hunters never really stop moving. Zodiac/astrological signs: Libra. Blood type: O. Social class: Middle. Religious values: Agnostic atheist. Occupation: Owner of, chef and waitress for Sarah’s Spot.  A restaurant dedicated to giving hunters everywhere the energy they need to, well, hunt.  Info here!  When she’s not running Sarah’s Spot, she’s either out hunting or teaching the younger hunters the ins and outs of social media.  Busy schedule, folks!

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

Height: 5'0. Weight: 121 lbs. Body type: Athletic. Species: Human. Eye color: Blue. Glasses/Contacts?: No, no. Hair color and style: Brunette, typically wears it down.  A little wavy at the bottom! Face claim: Victoria Pedretti. Tattoos: None. Piercings: Both ears. Clothing style: Her style’s all over the place, really.  It’s literally anything that pops out at her. Usual expression: Neutral. Distinguishing features: An anti demon possession charm bracelet she got from Dean when they were teenagers.  She never goes anywhere without it.

FAVORITES.

Weather: She says it’s cloudy and rainy but REALLY she loves sunny weather. Color: Purple. Music: Rock.  Pop. Movies: Horror.  Romance.  Comedy. Sport: Soccer. Beverage: Diet Coke. Food: Pizza. Animal: Dogs.

RELATIONSHIPS.

Father: Matthew Blake, human.  Deceased. Mother: Wendy Blake, human.  Deceased. Sibling(s): A younger brother named Phillip.  They became estranged after everything with their parents went down. Children: One daughter named Jami and two stepdaughters named Lily and Emma. Pet(s): Miracle, Dean and Sam’s dog who’s actually Sarah’s. Family’s Financial Status: Middle class. Relationship status: Dating Dean Winchester.

ALIASES.

FBI badges: Maureen Wilson, Laurie McAllister, Debbie Meredith, Marie St. Jacques & Candice Night.

+ STORY TIME.

HER STORY.

Unlike most hunters, Sarah came from a happy and healthy background with two parents who loved her dearly and a brother who could stand to be around her for five minutes at a time.  (Y'know, the typical sibling relationship).  They did everything together, from family picnics to Christmas tree shopping– every single year without fail, right up until Sarah left for college at 18.  Even there though she stayed in nearly CONSTANT contact with the three of them, letting them in on almost every single thing she was doing at Stanford.  INCLUDING meeting and eventually dating Dean Winchester, the one man in all those eighteen years who made her feel beautiful— inside and out.

At this point their relationship only lasted two weeks, Dean leaving soon after to rejoin his father for another hunt.  Word got out quickly that he bailed because his night with Sarah fucking sucked, and she believed those rumors for a LONG time.  She had no idea Dean was a hunter OR that the supernatural world actually existed, which was why the charm bracelet he gave her right before he left came in handy.  According to Dean, it wasn’t JUST a charm bracelet– it also protected her from demon possession.  He was gone the next morning, never to be heard from again, and Sarah’s heart broke.  Jeffrey, a supposed friend of hers, swooped in at the right time and convinced her to take the charm bracelet off as a sign of defiance against the hateful rumors AND Dean.  You don’t care that he bailed, Sarah!  A few weeks from now you’re gonna graduate and you’ll forget all about Mr. Stupid Impala Guy!  It’s gonna be great!  Realizing he was right, she gave into the idea and took the bracelet off.  Leaving herself vulnerable once more to demons.  Demons who waited to strike ‘til graduation night.

It was supposed to be a beautiful ceremony.  All the students were dressed to the nines in these beautiful gowns, MORE THAN READY to move onto the next phase of their lives and Sarah was right there with them.  Even after all the drama with Dean, the charm bracelet now tucked safely away in her pocket because she wasn’t ready to let go of it completely, she couldn’t wait to get her diploma!  Everything was going wonderfully… and then her name was called.  Something happened when she reached the stage.  One second everything was fine and the next she was a prisoner in her own mind, forced to watch herself cause chaos in the worst ways possible, forced… to watch her own hands… murder her parents.  She remembered hearing herself laughing the entire time, remembered feeling WAY too happy about the life draining from two all-too-familiar pairs of eyes.  It went on for hours, the thing that wasn’t her that was holding her hostage in her body taking its sweet time with those two brutal deaths.  The last thing Matthew and Wendy saw before everything came to an end was their daughter smirking in their scared faces.  Cue another blackout.  When she woke up she was herself again.  The room was red.  Everyone was staring at her, frozen in shock– all except her brother.  Phillip stared with a hatred in his eyes and Sarah knew, knew, he would kill her one day.  “I’m…”  She got slowly to her feet, shaking.  “I-I’m sorry…..”  She turned for the door, ran and just… kept running.

[numetaljackdog]

album ranking september 2022

this time i made the bold decision to increase the number of albums ranked from ~40 to a full 100. i only somewhat regret this choice.

album list under the cut

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition)

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA (Deluxe Edition)

Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal (Deluxe Edition)

100 gecs - 1000 gecs

Linkin Park - Meteora

Laura Les - i just don't wanna name it anything with "beach" in the title

System Of A Down - Toxicity

Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight (Deluxe Version)

Tallah - Matriphagy

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (Expanded Edition)

Linkin Park - Reanimation

100 gecs - 100 gecs

Toby Fox - UNDERTALE OST

Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts

Left At London - t.i.a.p.f.y.h.

Bayside - Interrobang

Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony

Motionless In White - Creatures (Deluxe Edition)

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Ada Rook - UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU

food house - food house

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror

Chongo - Mad Rat Monday

Three Days Grace - One-X

Nirvana - Nevermind (Deluxe Edition)

Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit

Torres - Silver Tongue

The Used - The Used

Bring Me The Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret

Toby Fox - DELTARUNE Chapter 2 OST

Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart

Kittie - Spit

Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive

Linkin Park - Living Things

Three Days Grace - Human

Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!

Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all $

We Are The Union - Ordinary Life

Go! Child - Coffee and Ramen

Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell

My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory EP

Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

Holy Grail - Ride The Void

Radiohead - Kid A

Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)

BACKXWASH - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES

I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - 1981 EP

For the Likes of You - Withered

Radiohead - OK Computer

Will Wood - The Normal Album

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

Linkin Park - Live in Texas

Anti-Flag - Die for the Government

SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES

Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Pt. 1)

Motionless In White - Infamous (Deluxe Edition)

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Spineshank - The Height of Callousness

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

Jamie Paige - Bittersweet

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Nirvana - Bleach

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season (Cut Up!)

grandson - A Modern Tragedy Vol. 1

Jared Dines - The Dark

Jared Dines - The Light

Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny

Alexisonfire - Crisis

Baroness - Yellow & Green

Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic (Deluxe Version)

Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream

Death Grips - The Money Store

Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Deluxe Version)

Laura Les - REMIXES 2017

a-ha - Scoundrel Days

Evanescence - Fallen

Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (Expanded Edition)

Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Dorian Electra - Flamboyant

Limp Bizkit - STILL SUCKS

Brian David Gilbert - songs with videos without videos

Architects - Holy Hell

The Cardigans - Gran Turismo

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Masakazu Sugimori - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney OST

Rico Nasty - Nightmare Vacation

Bring Me The Horizon - amo

Brian David Gilbert - AAAH!BBA

Lena Raine - Celeste OST

Black Flag - Damaged

Kesha - Rainbow

Dorian Electra - My Agenda

Motionless In White - Disguise

Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light

[grigori77]

Movies of 2022 - My Summer Rundown (Part 1)

The Runners-up:

20.  DAY SHIFT – Neflix Originals continue to plug the cinematic gaps where needed with an array of impressive (frequently OTT fun) alternatives to big screen adventures, and this bonkers action horror throwback from the makers of the John Wick movies is a pedigree example of this particularly hardy breed.  Jamie Foxx is clearly having a blast chewing the scenery as Bub, the super-violent vampire hunter looking to get back into the good graces of the big-business Los Angeles hunters’ guild that kicked him out for being too overzealous.

19.  TOP GUN: MAVERICK – After a ton of Pandemic-based delays, the long-overdue sequel to Tony Scott’s heavyweight blockbuster popcorn magnet finally arrived to significant fanfare and great box office returns, and despite the inevitable anti-US war-machine grumblings it turned out to be well worth the wait. Tom Cruise steps back into the role that MADE HIS CAREER like he’s never been away as hotshot US Navy fighter ace Pete “Maverick” Mitchell returns to the elite fighter school to train a squadron of young pilots for a desperate secret mission.  Tron: Legacy and Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski delivers thrills and spectacle by the bucketload in a bona fide rollercoaster ride that EASILY does the original justice.

18.  VENGEANCE – I love it when a sneaky smart little indie comes out of nowhere to blow me away, and this deeply satirical black comedy is a DOOZY.  B.J. Novak (The Office) makes his writer-director debut while also starring as aspiring elitist New York podcaster Ben Manalowitz, who hits upon a potential scoop when he winds up in smalltown Texas to attend the funeral of one of his former random hook-ups only to discover her family, led by her big brother Ty (an on-fire Boyd Holbrook), are convinced she was murdered.

17.  MEN – In truth more of AN EXPERIENCE than a film, this twisted existential horror fantasy is one of those movie’s you’re probably only gonna want to watch ONCE, but it’s also definitely one of those movies you REALLY SHOULD see.  Ex-Machina and Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland has put together his most full-on balls-tripping madass feature to date with this fundamentally ODD film about Harper (Wild Rose’s Jessie Buckley), a deeply troubled new widow who’s vacationing alone in a quaint English country house, only to find herself terrorised by a succession of seemingly demonic men who all have the same face (the immensely talented Rory Kinnear delivering one of the best and most impressively varied turns I’ve ever seen him deliver).

16.  SAMARITAN – Overlord director Julius Avery has delivered another cracker with this gleefully inventive and explosively robust alternative take on a superhero movie in which Sylvester Stallone lands one of his most interesting and meaty roles IN AGES as the titular former superpowered crime fighter who finds himself dragged out of his long self-imposed social exile by twelve year-old fanboy Sam (Euphoria’s Javon Walton) when local aspiring crime-boss Cyrus (a typically mesmerising Pilou Asbæk) attempts to spur a citywide uprising.

15.  LIGHTYEAR – Disney/Pixar bring the high-powered origin story of Toy Story’s intergalactic hero Buzz Lightyear to the big screen in fine style in this all-action animated sci-fi treat that sees Chris Evans take on another iconic role after ending his tenure as Captain America with his usual enthusiastic, large-than-life aplomb.  Finding Dory director Angus MacLane delivers thrills, spills and deep belly-laughs as Buzz and a ragtag crew of less-than-prime Space Rangers (which includes a wonderfully game Taika Waititi) fight to save their world from the threat of Zurg …

14.  THE FORGIVEN – Masterful writer-director John Michael McDonaugh (The Guard, Calvary) delivers an emotionally charged and deeply resonant psychological slow-burn thriller adapted from Lawrence Osborne’s acclaimed novel.  Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain both deliver spellbindingly complex performances as the souring upper class couple faced with a crushing moral quandary after accidentally running over a boy in the Moroccan desert on their way to a high society party held by Matt Smith’s idle rich socialite.

13.  BEAST – Idris Elba is at his usual charismatic-yet-vulnerable best as out-of-his-depth Dr Nate Samuels, the father of two wilful teenage girls who finds himself fighting to protect his family from a ferocious rogue lion while visiting old friend Martin (Sharlto Copley), a wildlife biologist working in the South African bush.  Director Baltasar Kormakur has made quite a career shepherding man-against-nature thrillers to the big screen (The Deep, Everest, Adrift), so he’s more than capable of delivering on the super-tense thrills required here.

12.  FIRESTARTER – The second big screen adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most criminally underrated novels may have tanked at the box office (then again, its simultaneous streaming release on Peacock can’t have helped) and been largely panned by critics, but I thought it was a rousing success.  Zac Efron is darkly charismatic as telepathic fugitive Andy McGee, determined to keep his troubled pre-teen pyrokinetic daughter Charlie (The Tomorrow War’s Ryan Keira Armstrong) out of the clutches of the clandestine government outfit looking to profit from her potentially devastating powers, with Keith Thomas (director of acclaimed indie horror The Vigil) bringing Halloween Kills writer Scott Teems’ tight, taut and rewardingly stripped-back script to compelling life.

11.  THE SEA BEAST – Neflix made an impressive stab at grabbing the animation crown for the summer with this wildly-inventive and thoroughly rewarding nautical family adventure fantasy set in a world where a whole society has grown up around the hunting of massive sea monsters.  The classic pirate cinema conventions are paid suitably rip-roaring tribute as we follow Karl Urban and Jared Harris’ salty buccaneers on their quest to bring down the fearsome Red Bluster, only to discover what they’ve been brought up believing could be very wrong indeed …