#ghostbusters ambience

[engiespengie]

Hey homies I just uploaded what is hopefully the first of multiple Ghostbusters themed ambient videos, this one is Egon themed but I intend on doing the other Ghostbusters too.

Eat up besties

[mx-time-bunny]

I have decided to start sharing the ambience playlists I have made on my YouTube channel. I did it a long time ago, but it’s about time I shared them again; as some have been updated and I have one or two new ones as well. Starting with this Ghostbusters one. It only has a handful of videos in the playlist at the moment. But I’m working on finding more and will add them as I find them (well, ones I like).

Ghostbusters Ambiance Playlist

[jaays-moon]

ghostbusters👻☎

heeseung x reader (afab) genre: friends to lovers, conducting a seance, spooOooky, friends having fun!! synopsis: what is better than a sleepover after the dreadful exams? a game of calling ghosts at a sleepover! where y/n and her friends play the game of seance with candles. word count: 2.6K 🖤🖤 DISCLAIMER‼️ i do not intend make fun of the practice or anyone who believes in such things. this story is purely for entertainment. continue reading....༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.

"dude we are still having the sleepover right?" hearing heeseung's voice over the phone was just the moral boost i needed to protect myself from the eventual bed rot.

"yeah... we do, don't we..." however, nothing could stop me from the self-loathing that ensued after our exam results were published.

"y/n are you still sad about your grades? dude... you literally topped the class. so what jay beat you to rank 1, you know that nerdball is always trying to one up you."

ha...was it that evident in my voice "no, haha no its... ugh you know what, yeah i am upset. LIKE HE LITERALLY TOLD ME HE DIDN'T DO WELL IN PHYSICS, BUT THAT HOE??? this is why i hate toppers."

"oh? is it so?"

JAY??? what- omg did hee just put me on a three way call??

"HEE?" what is this guy doing. gosh way to go. he sure does know how to put me on the spot!

"no bestie it is I. the topper. you know you should actually let me know how crude your true intent is. and here i thought you were a friend."

"oh well good cause i can't be friends with LIARS! i wasn't the one who pretended to not know about the exam and then proceed to get an A! that is actually being an asshole. also that you never told me about getting tutored by jake."

"wait what you were getting tutored by jake? is this how you steal peoples friends jay?"

"WHAT? NO I DIDN'T? THAT LIL SHIT HAS BEEN TELLING EVERYONE THAT? JAKE-"

*the line cuts and the doorbell rings*

who could that be?

"hee?" "yes? who else? its time for the sleepover girl?"

"its 7 o' clock in the evening heeseung, who comes this early anyways-" i mean how does it even matter to scold him cause either ways, he barges into the house.

"well technically i do live here. its like my second home. do you need to take permission to enter your own house love?" of course. the only reason why i am friends with hee. he is unapologetically himself. it puts me at ease to have a person who thinks of me so dearly. or thinks of my home so dearly...

"ok fyi i also sent the invite in the gc"

"oh i know, jay is on the way with jake, maybe after he beats him up tho."

i chuckle at the thought of those two bickering. obviously jake hadn't told me anything about tutoring. it was just fun to watch them bicker after all! "and for you, i also invited leah over." a wicked grin decorates my face as i watch hee's jaw drop and eyes go wide in horror.

"Y/N??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what? why? how could you do this to me? YOU ARE VERY AWARE OF HOW CLINGY SHE IS WITH ME. she is like obsessed with me or something! please no y/n. i am so sorry!! Y/N"

"hee be nice! she is my friend! and everyone has tiny crushes. she just likes you a bit. as the good friend that i am, i am just helping her out! she also has something planned for the night. she was recommending some game? i don't know."

*bell rings*

"i guess that must be the two actual friends of mine. the ones who TRULY care for me!" i chuckle as i approach the door.

however nobody stands as i open the door. i look outside to check my surroundings but it is as quiet as a night full of mysteries could be. the sudden noise of thunder fills the ambience as it starts pouring heavily. i shriek as i run back into the house, locking the door. "hee...?" i look over the kitchen counter, the sofa, and knock on the bathroom doors he doesn't respond. "ugh where did this kid go? hee, hees- AHHHHHH!

something black just covers my eyes from the back as a scream for my life. "geez, if you didn't know how to defend yourself, you sure can make a serial killer go deaf. you know you should audition for those roles of screamers in the slasher thrillers."

"HEESEUNG! NOT FUNNY. I WAS SO SCARED!" "aww pookie was scared" "ew-" but his warm hug makes up for it. as the cold from the rain starts creeping into the room, heeseung offers me his jacket.

"what about you?" "don't worry. you will be warm and smell nice in it." he adds on with a wink. this guy. my laughs cover how blown out my pupils look. it isn't fair. how he gets to have this effect on me. i mean we are friends but moments like these, make me question otherwise. why can't i reciprocate the flirtations? why am i defeated dumb by this gorgeous guy?

"ok leah justed texted me. jay is picking her up" "you text leah?" "sometimes, when i think my charm is wearing off." "you are such an asshole! i am going to tell her." "no you won't." "and why is that?" "cause you care about me. cause, you like me." a grin of victory. i wave my hand to dismiss the words thrown out in air. is it that simple for him?

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our boisterous laugh fills my apartment. if it weren't for these people i genuinely wouldn't make it through college. but as we talk, as we laugh, heeseung keeps falling all over me.

"HEESEUNG WHY DO YOU HAVE A SERIOUS CASE OF IJBOLITIS YOU WILL SQUISH Y/N." jay's boisterous accusation fills the room when jake ends up becoming a water fountain spitting out the cola he was drinking. "omg y'all!! now i need to get tissues" shaking my head isn't enough for the amount of chaos these people cause.

was i saying something about them saving me throughout college? never mind that, it is in direct proportion to the headache they give me. stealing glance from hee i move towards the kitchen "y/n could you also get...um..five! yes five candles!" "candles? for what leah?" "remember?! i told you we have to play a game. i mean we are done watching a movie. it is raining outside. IT IS 3 AM! this is the perfect time to have a seance!" "ah what now?"

"a seance jake. wouldn't have expected you to know however." "please do explain jAy. wHat is a sEanCe"

"well you see in ancient times-"

"it is a ghost calling game!"

"it is NOT a game leahhh." wow... i have never seen jay pout?

"wellllllll none of us are mediums."

"what would you know baby i could be a medium?"

"BABY??" "BABY?" "you both-"

"what y/n? as if you aren't hiding something?! *giggling* you and hee... aren't you also dating? you may not tell your dear friend-"

"what? no no you have it wrong leah. y/n and i. i would never date her. we can never date. we are friends. right y/n? y/n-"

i rush to the kitchen as soon as possible. i have nothing to do with that conversation. i should have known. it was just heeseung being heeseung. he is just nice to everyone. it shouldn't mean anything that the way he looks at me is any different. it was just my perception. it was my fault i thought that heeseung could love me any more than a friend. it should have been me who answered that. of course. like he said we could never date. why would he date me. why would i date him. why am i hurt-

"y/n? why did you leave like that?"

as i feel my throat burning at the familiar sound. my eyes are about to spill the truth. "didn't leah ask to get the candles though? why are you worried." as i shove past him in my annoyance which almost turned into guilt. reaching up to open the cabinet heeseung comes closer, hovering over me to reach the matchbox. "y/n" oh i know that timbre of his voice. the low, soothing tone, prying to know if i am hurt. i am not. definitely. "what?" "i am supposed to ask you that. i know you have something on your mind. i mean i know you were trying to set me up with your friend-" oh. he wasn't even thinking about me. good lord. this is pathetic. i am pathetic. "no i wasn't worried about that. matter of fact i wasn't worried at all. first you three way call jay to "prank" me. and now you think i am unlovable. pick a side lee heeseung. do you even care or not."

"woah. government name... if i didn't know you better, i would say you are mad right now." "that is the point heeseung. you don't. know. me." "baby-" "DO NOT CALL ME THAT!" as i push him back to the kitchen island i feel his round eyes on me filled with concern and guilt. i am unable to pull him back before he bumps into the glass as it shatters to the floor.

"ayo? what happened-" jake's concerned voice broke both of us from the intense glare we shared.

"DID THE GLASS JUST BREAK? LEAH BABY! ISN'T THIS A BAD OMEN. WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS!" "jay.... baby relax it didn't fall on it's own."

"ew, get a room." leah rolls her eyes as she speaks "i guess heeseung bumped into it. right?" "yeah. that is exactly what happened."

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"so that is basically it. we hold each other's hands and ask if any spirit is out there who wants to contact us. and i know how hard it is for us to remain silent, calm and composed we HAVE to. the candles will flicker and we can then start asking questions! only ask yes or no questions. also, no questions about death, money or future! ok y/n babe light the candles in the center please!!"

as leah instructs all of us we get into position. i immediately scurried next to leah's side and held her hand as we all sat down. i could sense heeseung's intense stare on me but for the sake of my sanity, i choose to ignore him like all my problems in life. didn't know he would someday fall on that list. am i being dramatic? maybe. i am just a girl! 🫧𓇼𓏲*ੈ✩‧₊˚🎀

"wow that is cool and everything but, sorry y/n i don't want to hold sweaty ass palms?" "excuse ME-" "i said what i said!" jake dashes of to sit next to jay who was happily seated next to his gf. this jake had one job. heeseung awkwardly shifts to sit next to me. my hands go cold with the tight feeling in the pit of my stomach. i try to be extremely nonchalant about it. but in the shuffle i almost skid on the stupid floor which makes him snort. i look up to squint at him but it elicits only a response of a smirk from him. oh.

"oh also if the candle assigned to each of us flickers then it is a yes and if all the candles remain still. well, a no." "aw babeee you are learning so well!" "the best is teaching me" as jay shoots a wink at his partner we all physically groan with jake audibly gagging. well this is going to be fun...

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as the rounds went by the questions became stupider. you would think that all of us had a collective braincell count of negative 5.

"am I the smartest in this group"

" *cough* nO *cough* "

"shut up jake!"

"whaaaat it wasn't me :("

this is what i missed the most, laughing, having fun with your friends. i also long back started to feel at ease with hee's warm hands melting into mine. i had gone overboard with my feelings and it wasn't fair to hee or me... i just had made assumptions. i wished to clear the air. as my other friends continued to bicker i turned towards hee.

"hee...i am sorry for pushing you earlier. i just... it did sting when you said you would NEVER date me. i mean i am not that bad of a person am i" i laugh trying to cover the underlying connotations of my ask. " *chuckles* im sorry y/n. it was actually on me that i assumed you would be averse to dating ME. i mean who would want to date their friends, right?" his response caught me off guard so did his tone. he ended the question with some unsaid hope. i tried to decipher what he meant while trying to study his eyes. his eyes were locked into mine the similar way. trying to uncover the surface and delve deeper.

"i guess there are two other love birds here!" leah's voice broke us from a trance like state. " ahha leah. so its my turn? ok i would like to ask whether i will be rich- "HEE DO YOU WANT TO DIE LEAH JUST SAID NO QUESTIONS ABOUT MONEY!!!" " well...if it means it will be in your arms-"

"ohh my godddddd"

"i think i just barfed in my mouth-"

"YOU are actually the perpetrator of such CRIME!"

"EXCUSE ME-"

no amount of eye rolls can save the redness that creeps into my face. this guy- but this time i try to play along. "well why are you trying to be like romeo-juliet, when we can be hee-y/n alive and happy." i add on a wink feeling extra feisty.

the silence which fills the room could be cut through with a knife. i was about to back track when hee's jaw dropped like never before and a howling laughter ensued.

"oh heeseung she DEVOURED YOU SO BAD!!"

"damn y/n should flirt more often!!"

hee was just as dumbfounded as i was at my response.

"oh yeah? are you sure y/n. don't make promises you can't keep." his voice dropped to a soothing volume. his head tilted with the slightest smolder in his eyes. not to overpowering. just enough to hypnotize, mesmerize. as he turned towards the the candle circle his voice become bold and clear.

"dear spirit just y/n like me?" is he for real!!?? did he just ask that in front of... at that moment it felt as all the air in the room had left. a chill ran through my spine. i could see my friends start to feel uneasy as it seemed something, or someBODY else had joined our little gathering. i could see leah's face drop as she held my hand's tighter than usual. even jake and jay feel completely silent with the ambience in the air which dropped the temperature.

" ok... um so heeseung your candle isn't flickering-"

"but baby look... y/n's candle is flickering."

it felt like time had stopped. the room felt eerily filled with various other auras. feeling intensified. the tension was rising. as if as an instinct i held onto hee's hand tighter than before. from my periphery i noticed him glance towards me. he reciprocated.

"ok that is enough, thank you spirit for joining us." leah broke the tension as she blew out the candles and all of us sighed. as if everyone was holding their breathe expecting the worse.

all of us looked at each other. "ok... well the spirit didn't have to expose me like that..." everyone started giggling. this experience was something else.

"so you do like me?"

"well we all knew that before you two idiots knew."

"for once I agree with jake. you both are so blind, imagine, a LITERAL SPIRIT had to come and expose y'all."

"wellll THIS WAS FUN. and, i beg you y/n. NEVER second guess MY intuition. mwah mwah. you both are soooo adorbs!!"

and all i and hee could do in laugh and fall in for each other all over again.

omg this was long af😭😭 i had so many doubts and second thoughts with this buttttt, i hope you like it‼️‼️ please do show support and love by reblogging🖤and sending in asks in the mailbox💌thank you ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

[runningw-thewolves]

Loki Devotional Ideas: Halloween Edition

(Do you seriously think our loveable God of “fuck around, find out”, “constant sugar high insanity” and “what’s the worst that could happen?” wouldn’t love a holiday about dressing up scary, watching scary movies, telling scary stories and pranking people?)

- Watch horror movies. Any will do! Slashers (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween), Splatter (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Hellraiser), Monster (e.g. American Werewolf in London, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon), Sci-Fi (e.g. Alien, M3GAN, Predator), Psychological (e.g. The Woman in Black, The Ring, Silence of the Lambs), whatever floats your boat! (Yes, this does include kids horror.)

- Listen to spooky tunes. I don’t just mean Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters”, and so on; listen to the Silver Scream albums by Ice Nine Kills, “Halloweentown” by Dark Divine, fucking anything by Motionless in White or Rob Zombie. The spookier, the better!

- PRANKS! Give someone a quick scare, but remember to do clean up/soothing afterwards!

- Give Loki his own Halloween bucket and put some candy in it for him.

- Spooky tarot readings! Use tarot or oracle sets themed around horror in any way. I have an oracle set literally based on horror movies (and it has a card called “The Trickster” based on IT and it is 100% a Loki card. I’ll talk about it in detail another time.)

- If you have some sort of statue or digital representation of Loki, why not dress him up? You can even ask him if he’d like anything in particular.

- Decorate your house how YOU want to. Get out the lumbering, scary animatronics or stick to the kid friendly banners and plastic scene setters and lights. Whatever works for you!

- Indulge in whatever spooky delights you desire. Read that shitty CreepyPasta from 2009, read that Goosebumps story, watch Twilight, play old horror/scary Flash games, eat chocolate till you poop nothing but it, listen to zombie apocalypse ambience, play with your Monster High dolls, WHATEVER! JUST. INDULGE.

- Carve a pumpkin. Give Loki a pumpkin as well (sure he can’t physically carve it in our realm but you could always use your minds eye to translate what he carved as close as you can). Make pumpkin pie from the insides.

- Enjoy the autumn leaves falling, the nights growing longer, the full moon in the sky and all the hallmarks of the autumn season.

- Give out candy to trick r treaters. Laugh at their horrible jokes (convince them you genuinely found it funny), play along with their “tricks”, compliment their outfits. Loki loves kids, and you bet your ass he’d love them going home happy with not just candy but someone playing along with them!

- Draw horror art, write horror stories, create spooky music. Use the time to be spookily creative. And it doesn’t need to be groundbreaking - if you wanna make a Jeff the Killer rip-off, you go and you make that Jeff the Killer rip-off!

- For those who observe Samhain; include Loki in your celebration/tradition, even if only a small inclusion.

- Tell Loki a scary campfire story from your youth. Hell, if you wanna ask him to tell you one, go for it!

- Include his family if you can! Leave candy or toys for the twins, include wolves or snakes in your decorations for Fenrir and Jormungandr, make a foam tombstone dedicated to Hel and Garmr, make decorative potions themed around Angrboda and Sigyn. Whatever way you can think of to include them, it’s worth a shot!

- For pet owners; if your furry buddy is alright with it, dress them up or give them seasonal items! Not all animals (e.g. cats) like dressing up, so try for Halloween themed toys, bedding, enrichment and treats! Bonus points if you dress up your companion to resemble Fenrir, Jormungandr or Sleipnir.

- Get scented candles or incense that fits the season. Pumpkin, cinnamon, rain, apple - there’s plenty of options out there!

- If you do any Halloween baking, invite Loki or leave him some of your baked goods.

- Have a pumpkin spiced latte and OWN being a basic White bitch for five minutes. You enjoy every slurp of that pumpkin spiced latte like your life depends on it. Don’t matter if you are POC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, whatever else - if you wanna be a basic autumn White bitch for a minute, you go and be that basic autumn White bitch! (Bonus if you add whipped cream or anything else you like just for the Hell of it.)

- In summary; HAVE FUCKING FUN. Indulge yourself, play along with games and pranks, take in everything the season has to offer.

[sillyreallyidk]

ehh i tend to ramble on my stories on insta but idk i might do both on here and tumblr

(SPOILERS OF COURSE) I HAVE FINALLY WATCHED GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE‼️‼️‼️

anywho, yes i finally watched it. and i actually loved it??? like it felt so nostalgic even though i like watched the originals billions of times with my father. but bro it felt so different just hearing the old ost and ambience dude. like holy shitttt😭. it was so so so so great watching it. nice seeing the spirits/ghosts like shootingv stars in a way? felt so bad when i saw egons death from the chair (rip :(() it made me honestly happy to see phoebe have characteristics from her grandfather like MWAH. ik it’s just curly hair and glasses but idc top notch tbh.

she so silly though i love her and her jokes. ig the landlord was nice enough to change the locks when they’re out (like that won’t matter for her) made me feel so happy that egon wanted to play chess (or it couldve been some other ghost) and play with phoebe. i wish i got to see it in theaters and not beeen like “wahhh wahhh its a new movie from a older movie that i love its gonna be terrible!!” imd, i saw halloween kills that year and it was pretty decent, so i thought it was just gonna be BLEH or something ig. but Podcast honestly reminded me of Ray ngl like THEIR HAIRRRR‼️

im sure they did it intentionally but ibjust love it man. and ray knowing podcast’s podcast. LIKE that warmed my heart man😭😭😭. it was honestly sweet that egon was directing with the lights and showing phoebe what to do to fix the proton blaster like awhhhh 😭😭. OH AND THEM FINDING THE GHOSTBUSTERS CAR LIKE AHHHH. but honestly such a cool sweet heart warming story. i sure did miss gozer tbh. big surprise to see jk simmons there tbh😭 and then split in half poor fellow just wanted to rule the world too ig

just loved it when she said it here too “are you a god?” 😭😭 and then ray had to remember silky ray. but so sweet to see that egon help out phoebe and see thebold gang and hugging his daughter :(((. even though he said like NOTHING it was still so so so sweet. i bet harold ramis would be so proud of this movie if there is an afterlife perchance. i should be like doing schoolwork right now but here i am rantijg to like 2 of my closest friends EVER (ily both so so much if you even read this) or even the internet 😭😭😭 but oh well.

kinda myv only complaint about the film is that they just deepened the voices ofbthe mom and gooberson when they were possessed by gatekeeper and keymaster and even the eyes were very red like ik it was like that KINDA in the first film but cmon man. anywho rant over. WAY BETTER THAN THE 2016 VERSION.

9.3/10

i think i may watch the frozen empire one pirately like i did with afterlife‼️‼️

[playlistsbybunny]

witchcore

rows of somebodies - the saga

witch’s rune - s. j. tucker

winter moon - erutan

witches circle - italian witches circle

blue eventide - dune moss

o willow waly - ashley serena

notre dame - paris paloma

from persephone - kiki rockwell

witch - karliene

witchcraft - vian izak

the love trap - hex girls

descent - flower face

bitches be witches - starbenders

cryptid - ratwyfe

the horror and the wild - the amazing devil

the wolven storm - bellabeth

wicca dance - spirits in ambience

bad moon rising - satin puppets

the cult of dionysus - the orion experience

gooey - glass animals

magic seeds - iwan rheon

crimson and clover - joan jett & the blackhearts

the conjuring of anke - thom yorke

bad woman - arctic monkeys

caution repetitive - princess chelsea

the dance of the witches - john williams

ghostbusters - ray parker jr.

devil in me - purple disco machine

celeste - donovan

magic carpet ride - steppenwolf

link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37e9aGeVJImT1yHgBfCDBj?si=574f3ab377494858&pt=fd323376ac985544bbbc808c242d2620

[azuresage]

I was standing outside handing out candy for several hours tonight. Notable events included:

- one of my students came by and we had a "Spiderman pointing at each other" moment

- little girl gave me a hug

- kid told me I looked like an elden ring boss

- nezuko and zenitsu who were super excited that I recognized them

- fire force kid who was equally excited that I recognized him

- kiki the witch

- sans undertale

- Ghostbusters twins

- ahsoka tano

- lots of kids fascinated by my fog machine

- small children too scared to approach me without their parents

- little girl asking me if my mask is "my real face" and then touching it

- multiple groups of like 30 kids at once

- a trio of a traffic cone, a stoplight, and a stopsign calling themselves the "safety patrol"

- my pumpkins got complimented

Other than my speaker cutting out and taking half my ambience with it, it was a very successful night. Halloween is the fucking best.

[natdrinkstea]

hello!! i’m asking most of these bc i know you do more campaigns than just with the buddy group! 4, 31, 33, 41 and! what’s been the most memorable dnd experience/memory (either emotional or like, funny)?

omg hi Rachel <33333

this is a long one so here's a break

4. favorite character to play?

my favorite character I've made is my first, benny!! but snores and rosie are the most fun to play because they just say silly things and have no impulse control

31. current party?

well there's of course the buddy group! we play on discord every other weekend :] saving souls in a weird town and being queer and sad (thief of fallkirk) or being weird college kids (kings game) ! other than that, I have a group with some old friends from school where we do my fun 90s monster of the week game (superstition)

33. do you listen to music while playing?

not really? sometimes I put on fantasy ambience YouTube videos or listen to the music bot but that's it

41. out of context quote?

the classic superstition "calm down, ghostbuster!" is great, but also the time during thief of fallkirk in 2020 where eros and I quoted bad romance to each other in the zoom chat for an hour

most memorable moment was at the end of my first campaign (questcapades) when we did a musical number <3 the plot twist actually made me cry

[harmonytre-reacts]

Glitch Techs Episode 1 Reaction

I know I’ve been reacting to Trollhunters, and I will continue to, but right now I’m going to watch Glitch Techs because it kinda has a time limit. The second season comes out August 17th, and if not enough people are interested, it will be cancelled. The art style looks really cool and it’s been on my watchlist for a while. Jumping in blind!

After note: THIS SHOW IS SO EPIC AND YOU MUST WATCH IT NOW! The character’s are so full of personality, the animation is beautiful, and the story and effects are engaging! As long as you’re not sensitive to flashing lights (mostly the title card), then it is an AMAZING show!

Ooooo cool glasses and color ambience!

Already adoring the vibrant art style!

The hair swoop XD

Digital Ghostbusters

Okay the memory forgetting thing is kinda creepy tbh

He’s not gonna upload them all, huh?

Oof, the title screen is very flashy. Ouch.

Already like Five. XD “I choose you!” Classic! And the visual game effects are great!

Ooh, I like his hair! Dawwwww and he teaches kids!

DAWWWWWWWWW SUPPORTIVE PARENTS!!! I love! >w<

That truck runs well for not moving in over a decade. XD

Yep yep yep love Miko! Her hair reminds me of Twilight Sparkle, but I can already tell I’ll love her more! (And considering I already like Twi, that’s good.)

Aaaaaaaaa she’s so dramatic and dorky, I love her! And her hair is beautiful and so is the animation!

I don’t see how leaving one person behind to do her own thing would be a problem? She seems responsible and it’d be one less kid for them to account for?

Augh, that poor coffee guy!

Is that foreshadowing? I feel like that’s foreshadowing? “One of these days you’ll get lost in your head and I won’t be able to get you out.” Meh, maybe I’m reading too much into it.

Oh “respawns”. I heard “refunds”.

Woah, epic VR!

LOL I LOVE MIKO”nah nah nah nah nah this is my theme song, bring rainbows of pain is always the best!”

Yeahhhhh I don’t like Mitch. Being popular doesn’t mean you can be a jerk, man.

“Death to dingleberries!” Miko is the BEST!

Miko and Five are best team!

Ooooo cool puzzle!

NO NO NO MY NETFLIX FREEEEEZED!

Ooooo team win!

Stop being a sore loser Mitch . . . -_-

EPIC BATTLE MUSIC

No Mikoooooo!

No Fiiiiive! ;^;

Miko’s hair is so flowy and I love it!

And I love the video game sound effects. OwO

Huehuehue the tire tracks!

Co-oooooooop!

She’s soooo dorky and I loooove her!

Wow Mitch abuses his power. -_-

OHOHO THE ERROR WASN’T A ONE TIME THING!!! BOOYAH!

Oop, I was right, Mitch didn’t take care of the glitches. :P

Dawwww Five is baby.

Gimme that I wanna press the red button.

Muffins? BIT IS BABY.

SO EPIC! 100% better than any magical girl transformation!

Eeep, even Bit transforms?!

Lol, Mitch has girly scream! Oh, Chomp Kitty? Five can take care of that no problem. <3

CHOMP KITTY IS BABY! I know the glitch is bad, but I wanna hug it!

Mitch ded.

Yeah uhhhh, Miko I love you, but WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!

Lol, toddler snot.

The tiny mew, dawwww.

Yeah uhhh Five calm down, be better than him.

Hehe, her sister saw.

Oooo, locker portal!

So cool, including the credits!!!

[mr-snapshooters-drafts]

Dating in Your 30s With the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

The beginning of every new romance is laden with the prospect of a different kind of “ghosting” – where the thoughts, memories, and spirits of our past partners haunt our present affairs.

Table for two? No, sir, four for the ghosts of our past.

As we sit across the bar, arms nudging, our feet entangle, and the warm feeling takes over. The ambience is perfect; we have eyes only for each other. A friends-turning-into-more-than-friends scenario, perhaps.

And then they play some song, that takes you back… back to the person before the one you’re sitting with. That feeling, that emotion, that memory triggered, one that is annoying by the very fact that it should even resurface after so long. And you slip back into the same melancholy mode, thinking of time passed and feelings that will never return.

You approximate a feeling of melancholy that the Portuguese call “saudade”, or the “presence of absence”. As this Huffington Post piece puts it, the almost untranslatable word is a “a longing for someone or something that you remember fondly but know you can never experience again. Saudade is not nostalgia where you reminisce about happy and sad emotions. You remember the happiness but feel the sadness knowing you can’t recapture the feeling.”

And then you pause and wonder, is the person you are sitting with doing the same too?

Are they also looking at the bar, remembering the moment with another person in another time, maybe even in the same bar? It makes you think whether we are both entirely with each other? Or somewhere are we still carrying along the ghosts of the past? Turning a date for two into a ménage à trois or perhaps even a ghostly foursome? And sometimes there is more than one ghost of the past. And you wonder just how many of them are on the dance floor, along with the two of you?

In a brilliant sequence in the Charlie Puth-Selena Gomez number “We Don’t Talk Anymore” past lovers are shown kissing present ones in adjacent frames. A clever visual trick obliterates the present partners, so it appears as if Puth and Gomez are kissing each other.

Perhaps, deep down somewhere, we are all still kissing our previous partners.

I don’t know what sucks more: Being the new guy (blissfully unaware or painfully aware of the fact) or being the person who just can’t take in a new partner whole. Because your emotional hard drive still has some inaccessible bad sectors from the past.

It’s a frightening prospect. If the ghosts of my past were to manifest as apparitions, they would probably float past my current muse to pass snide remarks. “So, he still checks himself out in the mirror huh LOL,” the ghost might ask. (And true to its past form, this ghost won’t even laugh… it might actually say LOL just to irritate the fuck out of me). And my partner might say, “OMG like totally and that stupid expression he makes!”

Sobering also is the realisation that in another corner of the world, you are the ghost for someone out there. My ghostly apparition probably floats about making sarcastic jibes like, “Thanks babe! Now I’m dead both on the inside and outside.” Not to mention the fear that today’s muse could well become tomorrow’s ghost as you go about accumulating so many of them even the Ghostbusters vault seems insufficient to hold them where they can do no harm.

So, a sense of fatigue, an inability to create pure, new experiences sort of creeps in. Somewhat like how it didn’t feel like a party back in college until you were spinning around on your back like an upturned turtle. But now anything more than a slightly tipsy feeling after two drinks feels like a bit too much.

Does that mean, we’re resigned to never once more experience the romantic equivalent of unabashed alcoholism? Well, unless your romantic liver is made of steel, maybe not.

But here’s the bright side. Just like your relationship with alcohol changes, so does your relationship with romance. From the heady days of brazen, emotionally intense waves of love to perhaps simply settling in for a quiet day with a person where it doesn’t feel like noise when they talk. To an acceptance that your combined ghosts will linger on for a while.

Yet, at some point they will get buried into the sands of time, as new memories take their place.

Some might recall that episode from the show How I Met Your Mother, where the baggage Ted has been carrying from the past continues to haunt his current relationship. But his acceptance of it at the end of the episode finally helps him move on.

Because not all the conversations of the ghosts are haunting ones. If they could talk to each other, perhaps they’d say things like “He’s an idiot but he has a nice heart.” Or, “Yes, he’s frustrating but I got to admit, it’s never been boring right?” Or even, “Just when you want to strangle him, he does something caring, doesn’t he… the asshole.”

For all the bitterness, if a medium ever put us in touch, I would probably say things like “Hey Ghost(s), thank you for all the wonderful times. For the way you boosted my self-esteem. How you convinced me that you also found me attractive for the way I look, and not despite it, as I have always believed. For the tenderness, for turning passion into intimacy, and a kiss into a conversation. For lifting this troubled electron to a higher orbit. I hope we when we meet years later, we will look at each other and smile like the final scene in La La Land where Mia and Sebastian communicate so much in one glance. It’s ok that we couldn’t make it with each other, but we still made it. I’m happy for you – and I hope you’re happy for me too.”

You wish all relationships, if they had to end, could end this way.

As for me, I find my hope in the TV series Scrubs, to Carla’s wedding vows when she turns to her future husband Turk and says. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but you’ve managed to erase them all. Because each and every one of them has led me to you.”

Reblogged from Arre

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[engiespengie]

I see how y'all play favorites /j

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In case you haven’t seen the trailer, here it is. Shoutout to the Stranger Things Discord server (invite code in the sidebar; now’s a great time to join us!) members u/rightside_up, u/farh0rizons, u/ambiguwus and u/yuanyangty for conducting this analysis, as well as other server members for a collaborative writing effort on this analysis. We would also like to apologise for the long wait for this despite starting shortly after the trailer aired. Drafts were made and improvements took longer than expected.Anyway, here we go.The first scene depicts Mike, Lucas, and Dustin riding into the arcade. It’s worth noting that Will is not seen riding with them. It’s very possible that after the events of Season 1, Will is getting driven to places instead of being allowed to bike (though it’s possible he came separately later. We did see Will on his bike in the Season 2 poster/short teaser). They pass three extras by the cars, who are unidentified. Dustin’s voiceover, “We gonna do this? Let’s engage” appears to refer to the next scene--the Dragon’s Lair game. In the arcade scene we see the four boys--Will has now joined up--crowded around the Dragon’s Lair game. All clues indicate this scene immediately follows the previous biking scene. Dustin is the one we see actually playing the game. Many people have hypothesized that Dragon’s Lair might foreshadow Stranger Things 2 in the same way that the Dungeons and Dragons campaign foreshadowed the first.A strange whispering noise can be heard during a black screen. Many interpret this sound as something calling “Will”. If this is a voice saying “Will”, the implications of this detail are significant. It would suggest that there is some sort of sentient presence in the Upside Down. If it can talk, if it knows who will is, then this means that it thinks and does things deliberately. This could not be said about the Demogorgon--it never showed itself to be anything more than some sort of animal. Will turns and sees floating particles outside of the arcade. He then calls his friends, but the previously-full arcade is now empty. He is alone. Then, it flashes to the Upside Down. This is a departure from what we’ve seen before. At the end of the first series, Will flashed back and forth between our world and the Upside Down in his visions. But he was seeing either one or the other. Here, he sees them in varying degrees. He’s seeing particles at the same time that he can see and hear his friends. Whether this is a stylistic choice or some hint as to the mechanics of these “visions” are unknown. The electric portions of the arcade flicker. The door to the arcade slams open--why is unclear (wind? An unseen force? This also happens later at the Byers house). Will ventures outside. There, he sees, in the sky, stormclouds with red flashes and lightning. Will sees the creature--the presumed Monster for this season. It appears to turn in his direction. We then hear Mike: “Will?”--although his voice is distorted. Will turns around. He is still outside the Arcade, and now Mike is there, coming out of the door. He asks if Will is okay. Will looks around, everything is normal, with no signs of the Upside Down. The nature of Will’s “visions” of the Upside Down are not yet completely understood. This scene tells us that Will is still physically in the real world while experiencing these visions. When we see him walking outside the Arcade in the Upside Down, he must also be doing this in the real world--because this is where he is when the vision ends. And Mike could see him standing outside staring at the sky--even when Will was experiencing the Upside Down version.0:59 We hear Hopper’s voice saying, “Nothing’s gonna go back to the way that it was ... not really”over a quick succession of images: Jonathan’s car is seen driving out of Hawkins. Mike, Dustin, and Lucas sit in class. Mike looks at the empty seat next to him. Will is not there. This is later shown to be his seat. Steve walks away from Nancy. They are in an alley at school--they met there multiple times in the first season. The mood here seems tense. Nancy looks concerned or forlorn. Steve seems frustrated, and appears to be walking away from the discussion. His attire suggests he’s at practice for some sport. Will is being examined at Hawkins National Lab. He’s reclined, wearing a hospital gown, with sensors on his head. Joyce sits next to him. We also get a glimpse of Hopper standing in the background. We cut to the bank of security monitors at the Lab. We see the same scene, except Hopper is now out of frame and we see a new presence--a man in a labcoat, presumed to be Dr. Owens, the new person in charge at HNL, on the other side of Will, examining him. The shot zooms out to reveal the larger bank of monitors. This shot was also seen in the Superbowl trailer; however, there are some differences. Notably, in the Superbowl trailer, there was a date on the screen “Oct. 30 ‘84 3:02 PM”, while there is no date in this trailer. There are also several other differences, such as the zooming, color, and the fact that the monitor shot of Will being examined is now wider. Many of these may have been editing changes, and it’s worth noting that the HNL monitors lacked dates in the first season. We hear Will say “I saw something”. A line of people sit at a table facing away from us in a room at HNL. They wear headphones. Some kind of machine is running in front of them. They appear to be similar to the people who were performing surveillance for HNL in the first season. Joyce says “What is it?” This may either attached to Will’s “I saw something” quote or his following “I felt it” quote.We see a field of rotting pumpkins. They’re in advanced states of decay. Flies gather around a few of them. From the context of the whole trailer, many assume the rot is somehow associated with the Upside Down. Will sits straight up in his bed. It looks like he’s just woken up. He stares directly ahead, as if in a trance, expressionless. We can see Joyce, followed in the distance by Hopper, in the doorway. She looks concerned. Will says, “I don’t know. I felt it everywhere” Will says this last part while seated at a table, across from his mother. He’s in tears, speaking barely above a whisper. Joyce looks visibly concerned. Mike, Lucas, and Dustin stare at something from around a corner. Their faces seem to be expressions of concern and worry. From the brick wall, as well as the background, they might outside their school.We pan across a field at night. It’s foggy. We can see pumpkins--this is possibly related to the rotting ones we see earlier. There is a small light in the distance. From left to right, Dustin, Steve, Lucas, and Max walk outside with flashlights, waving their beams around, ostensibly looking for something. It’s nighttime, and foggy. The grouping we see here indicates some interesting things about Stranger Things 2. Dustin and Lucas have teamed up with Max, but neither Mike nor Will are present. We also see that Steve is with them. How Steve connects with the kids this season is unknown, but this trailer seems to suggest that he will be with them and helping them out. Next there is a close-up of several lit-up Halloween gravestone decorations. One reads: “RIP Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust Here Lies Someone I wouldn’t Trust”. This scene is probably Halloween ambience. A scientist at a control board in the lower reaches of HNL reacts as the controls start to go haywire, lights blinking out of control. There appears to be something on the screen that can’t be made out. We look at a chair. It has Dustin’s sweater lying on it. There’s also a dark stain on the fabric, along with droplets of dark liquid. Many people believe this to be blood due to an audial cue in the “Thriller” remix playing. Dustin approaches the chair cautiously, examining the scene. We get a shot of the Wheeler house on Halloween. Kids in costumes walk past. There is a Reagan/Bush ‘84 campaign sign outside the Wheeler House--the 1984 Presidential Election was held a week after Halloween (on November 6, the one year anniversary of Will Byers’ disappearance). Reagan would receive over 61% of the vote in Indiana and win the election by an electoral landslide. There’s a scene of the four boys-- Dustin, Mike, Lucas, and Will, in their Ghostbusters costumes, as Stantz, Zeddemore, Venkman, and Spengler, respectively. They appear to be looking at something, and their expressions seem concerned. We see Hopper’s hovering over a map. It appears to be a topographic map. In the upper right hand corner are a series of dark grid-like lines--some have theorized that this is the town of Hawkins. Someone has drawn a series of blue “X”’s around the map, and Hopper appears to have drawn red concentric circles overlapping with them. The epicenter of these circles are some sort of complex-- a grey square inside a larger white, red-bordered rectangle. Hopper points at this with his pen. A new girl enters class at Hawkins Middle School: Max. The four boys (Will is not absent in this scene) look at her. She sits far away from them, tucked away in the back, arms crossed, possibly nervous. Mike says, “Sometimes I feel like I still see her”, referring to Eleven. He’s sitting in his basement, apparently holding his Millenium Falcon Model, staring in the direction of Eleven’s fort. We see a shot of Eleven’s fort, apparently still standing. This is accompanied by a voiceover from Eleven: “Mike”. Dustin approaches a garbage can outside what might be his house. He’s holding up the proton blaster of his Ghostbusters costume defensively. Someone places a proton pack down on a table. The boys gather around it. They appear possibly to be in the AV Room at Hawkins Middle School? The pack begins to shake--they back away from it cautiously. Mike holds up a microphone defensively, apparently ready to strike whatever it is inside. The boys open the pack. We don’t glimpse what’s inside, but we see that Max is also with them, staring down inside. Three of the boys--probably Lucas, Dustin, and Mike-- bike down a road in their Ghostbusters costumes. Hopper’s voice again, saying “Whatever’s happening is spreading from this place” over a succession of images: Hopper pulls some sort of slime, probably Upside Down-related, from a tree and examines it. A man--probably a farmer--watches behind him. Nancy and Jonathan enter into a room. It looks like it’s at Hawkins National Lab. Behind them is a screen with markings that can’t be made out. They stare at a portal (probably the Gate) to the Upside Down. It seems to have been contained--and it’s now encased in glass. Will sits at his desk drawing furiously. He’s still partially undressed--this appears to be a continuation of the earlier scene where he sits upright in bed, trance-like. As he finishes a page, he lets it flutter down to the floor. In the next scene, we see the culmination of Will’s drawings. Papers snake throughout the floor and up over furniture, connecting to each other, depicting a network of purplish vines. We don’t know exactly what these are, but they appear very similar to the thick vines we see covering the Upside Down. Why Will is drawing these is unclear, but perhaps he is depicting what he sees in his visions of the Upside Down. We hear Joyce ask, “What does it want?” Joyce and Hopper stand in the Byers’ living room, looking at Will’s creation. We then hear Will: “Not me. Everyone else.” Whether this is actually the reply to Joyce’s question is unclear, but the trailer definitely sets it up this way. So why this thing doesn’t want Will, and why it wants everybody else, is a question that is both unanswered, and, probably, fundamentally important. Will stands in front of his door as it opens, by itself, slowly. We see the red skies and lightning again. We have a panning shot of a lot of characters gathered in the Byers house. They appear tense, ready for conflict, and most are armed. The ones we see are: Lucas, armed with a wrist-rocket, Hopper, armed with a large gun, Steve (possibly with a spiked baseball bat), Dustin, Jonathan, Joyce, Nancy, armed with a shotgun, and Mike, armed with some kind of small metal cup/candlestick/trophy. Hopper stands outdoors at night, driving the shaft of what appears to be some tool, possibly a shovel, downwards. We may be able to assume that he’s digging for something, or elsewise striking something. A clip of a Halloween party. This scene is outside at night. We see Billy, Season 2’s principal human “evil” shirtless with a leather jacket spitting out a spray (alcohol, perhaps) into the air. Others party around him, including Tommy H., dressed as a Cobra Kai. Steve and Nancy dance at a party, but indoors. Possibly the same one. Steve appears to be having a good time. Nancy drinks from a red solo cup. Nancy sits on the edge of the tub in a bathroom. She is upset and distressed, holding her face in her hands. Someone in a hazmat suit approaches the Gate to the Upside Down. They hold in their hands some sort of multi-pronged flamethrower. We then see one of the hazmat guys using their flamethrower on a creature, or a vine from the upside down. It writes up into the air at the flames hit it. This may still be in the lab--the background shows what may be the glass divider surrounding the Gate. What this does show confirms that entities from the upside down have a noticeable weakness to fire due to their reaction upon being set alight. The next shot shows the inside of a cabin being torn apart with Hopper inside. The possibilities of what this shot suggests will be covered in a theory post which will be separate from this breakdown. Will is then shown to be having another vision, being shaken by Joyce shouting at him telling him to wake up. He appears to be a catatonic state during this vision, hinting that his connection to the USD causes him to temporarily lose control over his actions, freezing him in place whilst he suffers these visions. Hopper can then be seen investigating a long stretch of tunnel, it is unknown where he finds this although it could be possible that it's what he finds upon digging into the ground, a shot that has been shown in the super bowl trailer previously as well as this trailer. New character Bob Newby is then seen running through a hallway, wearing what appears to be hospital scrubs. The most likely place for him to be would be at Hawkins National Lab. How and why he would be there is unknown. He can be seen with a flashlight and, more importantly, a walkie talkie. This clearly implies with characters in possession of other walkie talkies I.e. the kids. This scene is what was described to us in a deadline article a few weeks prior to the trailer reveal. So expect Bob to get involved with Will’s condition as well as possibly the supernatural happenings. Especially since a corpse can be seen in the very same shot. Steve walks slowly through what can only be presumed is the junkyard armed with a spiked bat. Hinting at what could be another threat from the USD making it's way into the “Rightside Up” Steve is then with the kids in another tunnel jumping back from whatever is in front of them. Whilst we do not know what it is, a detail that we can point out is that they are all wearing clothing around their mouths: make-shift safety gear. Also note how there are particles in the air around them. This strongly suggests they are in an area that is close to the influence of the upside down, more specifically, another portal as we know that this toxic air leaks from the portal at HNL. It's possible that new portals have opened in these tunnels underneath Hawkins allowing the upside down’s toxic atmosphere to leak into the Rightside up. Dustin yells “Abort!” obviously meaning something has gone wrong in a plan, possibly during the time Steve and the kids go out in previous shots. The final shots in the trailer before the eleven reveal show Will having another vision. In this one he us running away from a mass of what can only be described as dark misty tendrils, perhaps of the monster seen in the trailer (pure speculation at this point). He is running through a school hall so it is during school hours. The reveal of eleven will be included in a separate post to this. This is because it led to a theory we deemed too long to be part of the breakdown as a whole as it lead to more speculation rather than looking at parts of the trailer. And that just about covers it. For now. via /r/StrangerThings

[heyitsmudiwa-blog]

Photography..

In the past week I have learnt some aspects of photography which I found very intriguing. One cant just wake up one morning and automatically be able to take pictures and call themselves a photographer. Photography is way beyond the aspect of just taking selfies and random pictures we take on a day to day Basis.

firstly, there are several types of photography taking methods such as the Low angle shot, this angle vividly creates a striking effect within the picture itself and this enables the method to distinctively differ from just taking a straight shot. The low angle shot also tends to create a dramatic atmosphere and can relevantly be used in movies such as transformers, ghostbusters and many more. The low angle shot creates an illusion as if the main character such as the marshmallow man is looming over the people.

I attempted to take this picture using a low angled shot in order to create a dramatic effect.

The following aspect is the Birds eye shot, this is more landscape taken from the top for example e.g. a helicopter.

The worms eye view, this is when the photographer is looking up to the sky from the bottom and this creates a dream like quality and this can make the picture taken to be seen as to be very relaxing and Surreal.

Vanishing point perspective is when the camera is placed in a particular way or angle in order to capture a different setting of things, this can be argued that the photographer may be wanting to stress a particular scene in a film to create a different ambience.

 I took a picture of this skull, because the reflection from the sun really captured my eyes therefore attempted to use the vanishing point.

The close up view is when the photographer zooms in order to create a scale for example in the movie called the “Robot” which was shot in (2004). Following on the close up view is also linked closely to the Eye level Camera Angle for example in the movie the “Blade Runner”, the eyes create a very powerful effect for example it can give out the muse of Danger or Threat. Zooming in closer to the eyes enables the people watching the particular movie on a certain scene the people may be able to get the real emotion being portrayed.

Furthermore there is also the close up comic view, this is when the photographer thinks of different angles in order to be dynamic and avoid it being boring. Each view point creates a different effect for example, the eyes, hands, monsters looking at the victim which enables the photographers to give out a story telling set up and design a sequence of images.

Lastly I also got the chance to know about the Dutch angled shot which is when the camera is slightly at an angle (oblique) and this angle makes the shot taken look weird and feel crazy. 

Abstract and surrealist views can be an illusion of a particular character being in a bubble. Abstract photography involves the entire subject to be unseen and focus on the detail such as shape, form, colour, pattern as well as texture. On the other hand surreal photography creates a point of view through juxtaposition. Surreal photography requires the images taken to be edited in order to pair things that are totally opposite together... However these two aspects of photography can be both very conceptual in nature by engaging the thoughts and feelings but are totally different in styles. Information adapted from http://blog.art.com/artwiki/~/art-wikis/abstract-vs-surreal-photography/. 

The picture above is my own interpretation of the surrealism illusion of seeing something that juxtaposes the main image. However this is an image of the sky reflection through the Bubble.

[brido]

Mike and Vicky Go to Ecuador (Day 2)

What’s the best meal you’ve ever had in your life? Like, if you take into account the fancy cuisine or the company you kept or the surrounding ambience, you probably have a few contenders in your mind. Before this trip, I knew the best food week I’d ever had. My sister visited L.A. in May and her pre-trip Googling of “Best Restaurants in Los Angeles” led to a week of us dining out at Redbird, Officine Brera, A.O.C., the Bazaar by Jose Andres, A-Frame by Roy Choi, Villa Blanca, Night + Market Song and Broken Spanish in that order. None of which I deserved to have at all. But I think all that might have been topped on Day 2 in Ecuador by one trip to the absolute middle of nowhere. But first, we’d have to brave the treacherous altitudes and impending danger of one of the world’s tallest active volcanos. 

In the morning, the fam hopped back in the van (this time joined by one of my sister’s co-workers and her daughter) to head out from Quito to Cotopaxi National Park. It’s the second-most popular national park in Ecuador after the Galapagos Islands. And it’s home to the very tall (19,347 feet) and very active Cotopaxi volcano. Along the way, we picked up an interesting-smelling tour guide to tell us all about it. He even managed to slide in the fact that, who knows, it might even go off during the tour!    

I have to give an A+ to our guide. First of all, he only spoke Spanish and Quechua, so we made do with the Spanish while my sister rapidly translated into English. That made for some unintentionally hilarious moments. Most memorably, as he was showing us how lava melts glaciers and then creates devastating mudslides in the area, he threw in a fun fact about how Spanish conquistadors felt scandalized by llamas because they mated like humans.

I made him pause and go back to that.

As he continued matter-of-factly in Spanish and the oblivious kids screamed amongst each other in the background, my sister was forced to say, in the heightened pace of a professional translator, “Apparently… llamas kiss on the neck… and… the Spanish… also raped the llamas.” Holy shit. Maybe I need to reread that chapter in Jared Diamond or Howard Zinn. A quick Google fact check of the llama mating makes for some imagery you can never unsee. But the gist is that they mate about exactly how you’d think they would. Except in a much-hotter seated position. And for 20-45 minutes. Just don’t look it up if you’re a battle-hardened, smallpox-riddled and/or horny Christian soldier.  

The guide had too many facts, really. He showed us layers of ash still left over from Cotopaxi’s last eruption in 2015, aka the reason my sister and her family couldn’t attend my wedding. He implored us to eat llama meat instead of beef because of its healthier protein and the bovine methane gas (“Cow farts are responsible for 80% of global warming”). He showed us horrible-smelling and hallucinogenic plants. He told us the indigenous Mother God would warm our hands after touching said plants if we lifted them to the sky (and it was much weirder when that actually happened). 

We saw the base camp where climbers get acclimated to the 12,500 foot altitude before going up another 7000 feet. We learned about Ecuador’s Avenue of Volcanoes. We learned about the endangered Andean condor and it’s ten-foot wingspan and life of detrimental monogamy. We learned about the Chalupas supervolcano that could potentially murder everyone in Ecuador. And we learned about the severely unfortunate town of Latacunga, which, over the centuries, has been repeatedly destroyed by earthquakes and mudslides. When someone asked why people would still live there, the guide paraphrased the 19th Century Prussian explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, by saying, “Ecuadorians are strange and unique beings. They cheer up with sad music and sleep peacefully amid smoking volcanoes.” Like I said, he was an A+.    

The guide left us at the high-altitude (12,800 ft) Laguna de Limpiopungo and we continued on our van trek, through fields of volcanic boulders, crustose lichens that eat those boulders and a team of wild horses, to find our lunch destination. Our only hold-up was a small group of locals blocking the road to pick wild blueberries in preparation for the Ecuadorian All Soul’s Day tradition of colada morada and t’ants wawa, or dead baby bread. But I’ll get back to that on another day. The one thought that kept going through my mind on the drive was that we’d all entered an alien planet and that the altitude would age us 23 Earth years like that gravity planet on Interstellar. Luckily, much like my park guide, my science was a little off.

Our lunch destination was Chilcabamba Mountain Lodge in Pedregal, which is an area some dude in the New York Times said was one of the 52 places to go in 2017. So I only have 51 to go in the next two months (here I come, Langtang Region, Nepal!). And awaiting us at Chilcabamba was ten courses of pure awesomeness that put most every other pathetic eating experiences I’ve had in my life to shame. I should probably rephrase that as not to offend anyone close to me. It’s probably fair to say that I mainly eat like Slimer from Ghostbusters. And I do know some excellent cooks in my personal life. I’m just saying that this was probably better.    

The chef was my new pal, Alvaro Reinoso Carvalho, a hunky 30-something Ecuadorian/Brazilian who has studied at world class restaurants in Sao Paulo and Girona, Spain. Maybe it had something to do with all the wine consumption at 13,000 feet, but he really gave my sister’s co-worker the ooh-la-la’s and she started feeling like a Spaniard experiencing a llama for the first time. I can’t really blame her. If I was smart and knew how to do things, I’d sign him and rep him and turn him into a celebrity chef in America like I was Shep Gordon. Then I’d retire to my mansion in Hawaii, throwing dinner parties and being sad I never made babies. Which is still a possibility, I guess. Gotta get on that.    

A small part of what made this special, besides the everything, was that nobody is really ever going to have this experience again. Chef Alvaro is getting a new restaurant “by the McDonalds” in the hipster-ish Quito suburb of Cumbaya. I would have advised him to hold out for a better offer. An offer that includes my retirement in Hawaii. Hey, I’ve watched enough Chef’s Table episodes on Netflix to know what I’m talking about.

Speaking of which, the Chef’s Table episodes I’m specifically thinking about are Dan Barber’s farm to table thing in New York and Francis Mallmann’s isolated, cult-like hippie bullshit in Patagonia. Like, Chef Alvaro seriously made the cheese we ate in the afternoon that morning. He also caught the fish in our sixth course that morning. And probably chopped some fucking wood and foraged some wild Andean mountain truffles or invented some new kind of honey or some shit. The dude was a gorgeous magician.

On top of all of that, and possibly because it was a Sunday, we were absolutely the only people at the entire lodge. We had the whole place to ourselves. Just my crew from the van, Chef Alvaro and a lady helping out who made spaghetti for the kids. I guess the intimacy did lead to a few embarrassing interactions. I tried to impress Chef Alvaro by telling him I’d eaten at the Bazaar by Jose Andres in Beverly Hills one time. I also said things like, “What do you think of elBulli?” while he smiled politely and said, “Ah yes, Ferran Adria.” Because I’m a fucking dope. But I had to let him know I knew my way around the world of celebrity chefs. Because Hawaii.

After dinner our rugged van group got to explore the rugged grounds all to our rugged selves. And the only thing that could have made it any more perfect of an experience was if the stupid clouds hadn’t obscured actual Cotopaxi volcano for most of the day. Probably because the Spanish persecuted the Mother God too (those goddamn Spaniards). But with heavy food comas and heads woozy from the altitude, we piled back into the van and made our way back to Quito. Thus concluded Day 2.

Day 1. 

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Existence Series / Movies We've Learned From 30 Place

in these movies who fall in love with the sights and travel the world we can find 100 thousand people. We’ve learned from the existence of the series and movies we have listed for you 30 amazing place.

  1-La Dolce Vita – Fountain of love/Rome

the romantic world of cult films that marked the history of cinema, La Dolce Vita’s famous scene was taken”the fountain of love,”Roman’everyone was amazed. Italy and Rome as the cradle of romanticism with this movie seared into everyone’s memory.

2-Batman The Dark Knight Rises – Prison/mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur

Batman’s 3. Bruce Wayne in the leading role in the movie’s fall, we watch from the pit of hell compared to the liberation. Actually here in India the pit of hell’s state of Rajasthan located in the heart of “mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur” named for a real prison.

3-Ghostbusters – Haunted Fire/NY

which was the base of the firehouse Ghostbusters film series, New York’s North Moore street’. The exteriors of fire stations New York’ta, while the interior shots of the Los Angeles’is made of TA. With its historic architecture, with the Red door for those who want to see, still standing tall.

  4-Vikings – County Wicklow/Ireland

3. especially in the array to begin the season, Ragnar’s village of England’many of the scenes last Ireland’s in the town of County Wicklow rests. In the county Wicklow seaside town’s the air to the patient you will be.

5-Rocky – Legend stairs/Philadelphia

one of the funniest characters in film history, rocky Balboa’s struggle in this film, I know you all remember the white marble stairs. These stairs are actually the Philadelphia Art Museum’s is located in front of. Rocky’s impossible to forget the stairs, screams…

  6-Corelli’s Mandolin – corner of heaven/Kefalonia

2. In World War II Greece’s the island of Kefalonia’depicting a love story in there is no want to watch the film and explore the island.

7-the beach – we are Patient beach/Maya line

in the film about a utopian community and the way of life 2000, blue meets green to the beach where we all fell in love. This beach Thailand’Phi Phi Leh, which is a little island’s line is known as one of Maya beach. Thanks to the film crew before the movie became so much thrown garbage on this beach a clean beach again. The crew collected rubbish from the beach for almost 1 month…

8-Lawrence of Arabia – a movie in the middle of the desert/Jordan

Oscar’Li cult movie Lawrence Arabia’s the last scenes in the desert of Jordan’s “Wadi Rum” aka Moon Valley’was filmed at. This valley, which hosted as a venue for many a film set, where the Bedouins live in Jordan’s South region.

9-Mission: Impossible 2 – Monument Valley

Mission: Impossible 2 movie there is a scene in the opening scene of a breathtaking mountain climbing… in this Scene the main source of Monument Valley-Arizona’. With a fairly steep and arid red soil region, which is in Monument Valley’lovers of Westerns, old movies ni will remember.

  10-Tibetan’te 7 years – Potala Palace/Lhasa

Tibet under bondage and Brad Pitt’s most important scenes in the film that displays relationships often cult capital of Lhasa and an architectural wonder, the Potala Palace’s The taken.

  11-The American – Castel del Monte/Italy

an American agent in Italy’s l’Aquila district, the Renaissance-inspired city of Castel del Monte’tells the story of their lives. Believe the places in the movie better than a movie. Trackable this sight just so you can escape…

12-the September issue a little – Çanakkale/Turkey

he’s lost his memory and Bozcaada’s also bad for your heart used to be with a woman who described a man’s love is of the purest form of Bozcaada in the film’s an incredible destination that will be told in the winter in the summer. Perhaps the most colorful part in the film lean Bozcaada beaches and nature…

13-Bruges – Bruges/Belgium

The story is dramatic and beautiful Gore, with Colin Farrell in the lead role’s played Bruges’s OK in the city of Bruges was taken. The intact structure of the city bleak and I think it protects so well the ambience of the place, which in the film is Oscar’if I had such a category, as this movie won open Dec.

14-into the wild – the Stampede Trail/Alaska

The raw material of freedom in this film is officially sorted. US’s a movie that takes place in all good States. Alaska; Arizona; California; Georgia; Mexico; Nevada; Oregon; South Dakota; Washington State… a time when Alaska’s but the main issue is… Especially the main character, Alexander, because it’s of Alaska’s where the moon meets. Stampede trail to bus 142 in Alaska where it is located.

  15- “the Exorcist” – the stormwhat steps/Washington

1973 movie The Exorcist stairs in Georgetown where the famous ritual of the priest landed, after that there are 3600 prospect street, Washington’has been placed in the. To live in fear nostalgia and a must-visit.

  16-Die Hard – The nakatomi Plaza/Los Angeles

Bruce Wills’s name polishing action thriller movie, Die Hard’s famous pain which commingle Plaza, Los Angeles, California’s on the avenue of Stars is located. In most of our list, while there are some great places of nature and history, we wanted to let one skyscraper. Nakatomi Plaza’s The Movie appeals to those who actually live the life of the spirit in the whole office.

17-shutter Island – paddock’s Island

  a mental hospital is a small island that is experiencing the horrific events from each other and a gripping thriller, shutter Island really is. Real name paddock’s Island and Boston’is also included.

18-the girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Hofsta Sateri, Katrineholm

the COP thriller The girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s also Sweden’s prove how good of frames that can give corners. Wagner used as a residence, the houses Hofsta Sateri, Katrineholm’.

  19-the Lord of the Rings – The Hobbit Village/New Zealand

  The Hobbit films and the Lord of the Rings hobbits hobbiton village, so actually most tranquil and beautiful places one of New Zealand’s built in this place. So, it’s quite normal that we should be aware of existence because he didn’t have already. But now it is open to visitors.

  20-Inception – Nijo Castle/Kyoto

  the “Inception” movie in your head how this movie was a fatiguing 17. YY’from Nijo Castle’just as it is. Japan’s Nijo Castle located in Kyoto, the first input of the audience in the movie scene, fascinated.

21-Gladiator – Ait-Haddou/Morocco

the Oscar-winning Gladiator Maximus in the movie’s Ait Haddou is sold as a slave. Morocco’s the most authentic towns of Ait Haddou’s definitely you should try the ambiance.

  22-Slang – Istanbul

Affleck’s 1980 Iran’Argo 6 film The Story of the escape of a U.S. Embassy employee Iran’s used as a venue for the Istanbul Grand Bazaar is also not captured on film.

  23-Dad – Savoca/Italy

  considered to be among the best films of the world recounting the developments surrounding the Italian mafia godfather and US’s scene, rather than Sicily’s Dark Savuca’s a lot of scenes were captured at spoken…

  24-Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – Cambodia

from PC games to movies adaptation film between Angelina Jolie’Cambodia who made this movie love to eat, often it is possible to see Buddhist temples. The main place of this film, especially the impressive Angkor Thom…

25-Amelie – Paris/Paris

your imagination fly movies Amelie’s one of the biggest reasons is a cute and likeable movie, Paris’s Opera and Moulin Rouge so painters in the area stems from the fact that hill was taken.

  26-the shawshank redemption – Valley Road, Mansfield, Ohio

from prison to freedom the story of friendship along the way an amazing feeling… the last scene in the movie The shawshank redemption Valley Road, Mansfield, Ohio’s also withdrew.

27-the oyster and the wind – /Brazil

a little girl with her dad about her relationship in the film in the name of peace calmness and an interesting venue is chosen. ( Brazil’s an interesting place with its beaches of white sand and the most clear…

28-Mamma Mia – Greece Skopelos

Greece’Mamma Mia romantic comedy film is I like to introduce like it was taken standing. The island of Skopelos’s all-natural beauty is reflected in the film…

29-Avatar – Hawaii

amazing 3D effects have been used in avatar, although the nature of the fabric of the film is really good. Hawaii Department of the film’s fascinating nature was taken in…

30-the fall – Chand baori/India

  the dreamer of a girl which tells of the adventures in the movie world the strong visual aspect to fall over 50’s the nearest venue. All of these places has a very striking appearance, one of the interesting than the others. India’s also a water Cistern itChand baori lan…

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