#invasion der vampire

[weirdlookindog]

Manuel Breá Rodriguez - Invasion der Vampire (Invasion of the Vampires)

cover art from 'Silber Grusel-Krimi' #310, August 26, 1980

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HORROR MOVIE RECS

♦ top tier ★ all-time fave

slashers: ♦intruder friday the 13th part 2 sleepaway camp 2 stage fright scream ★♦cold prey (Fritt velt) 1 & 2 texas chainsaw massacre 1 & 2 wrong turn halloween 1 & 2 & H2O A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors 1987 Child's Play 1 & ♦2 ★♦Curse of Chucky Phantom of the paradise Popcorn 1991 Club Dread My Bloody Valentine 1981 ★♦Society 1989 ♦Psychopath AKA Der Poppen Murders The Funhouse 1981 Peeping Tom happy brithday to me 1981 black christmas ★♦Sceance Maniac (the one with elijah wood) hell fest ♦Just before dawn 1981 Maniac Cop

scifi horror: The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 ♦The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 ★♦Bride of Frankenstein 1935 ★♦the stuff ★♦the fly 1958 ★♦invasion of the body snatchers 1978 ★♦the thing ♦the faculty ★♦from beyond ★♦re-animator 2 ★♦prince of darkness 1987 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 ♦Pandorum Dr jekyll and sister hyde ★♦the brood ★♦its alive 1974 & it lives again 1978 killer klowns from outer space 1988 Quaatermass and the Pit 1967

hauntings/curses: ★♦burnt offerings 1976 haunting in connecticuit conjuring 1 & 2 insidious 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 ★♦ evil dead 1 & 2 & 2013 final destination 1 & 2 & 5 house (hausu) 1977 Kairo (pulse) 2001 the grudge (japanese & american) ♦ dark water Night of the Demon 1957 ♦The changeling 1980 ★♦The Hole in the Ground 2019 Whispering Corridors

folk horror: midsomar ♦ Viy 1967 ♦ impetigore 2019 ★♦ the wickerman 1973 Burn Witch Burn the medium

catholic horror: ♦ The Devil Rides Out 1968 ★♦ the sentinel 1977 nun II ♦ exorcist III

weirdos: ♦basket case 1 & 2 ♦it follows A dark song ★♦The Perfection The Empty Man ★♦The Skull 1965 Beyond the Black Rainbow dead ringers i, madman 1989 messiah of evil 1973 ★♦The People under the Stairs 1991 ★♦The Reflecting Skin 1990 ★♦Carnival of Souls

zombies: ★♦the video dead dawn of the dead 1978 & 2004 dead and buried i walked with a zombie ♦plague of the zombies The Serpent and the Rainbow

monsters: ★♦Sweetheart 2019 The Gate 1987 The invisible Man 1933 ♦Wishmaster 1997 Warlock ♦the mummy's shroud 1967

vampires: Shadow of the Vampire 2000 ★♦ Martin ★♦Captain Kronos -vampire hunter The Brides of Dracula 1960 ★♦the night stalker & the night strangler salems lot 1 & 2 ★♦son of dracula 1943 subspecies 1 & 2 & 4 from dusk til dawn Vampire Hunter D 1985

werewolves: the howling 1981 ginger snaps the beast must die!

death traps: ★♦The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 saw escape room ★♦Theatre of Blood 1973 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 haunt

found footage: ♦Host 2020 Unfriended 1 & 2 Cloverfield Final Prayer Gonjiam: haunted asylum grave encounters hellhouse LLC ★♦Willow Creek ★♦noroi the curse occult ★♦ghostwatch ♦V/H/S 1 & 2 & viral

★♦ ALL the Amicus horror anthologies are worth watching

[themildestofwriters]

HOUSE ARENDEL

Founded by Reinaart, grandson of King Hendriks III de Geil van Tijrslant through one of his many bastard children: a daughter, Imelda van Raafheem. During the second invasion by the neighbouring nation, the Deutsch Empire, Reinaart was instrumental in halting the advancing army in the boarder county of Valjâer. With tactics decried by the enemy as "without honour," Reinaart held Valjâer until reinforcements could arrive, showcasing bravery and intelligence in equal measure. As reward, Reinaart was titled Markgraaf van Valjâer (that is Marquess of Valjâer), establishing his noble house in the process.

House Arendel is named for the Morning Star which Reinaart oft used as signal for raids against the invasion forces during the war. Their banner features a gold wolf on a red field below a white Mjolnir centred within a star.. Their words are: Ljós ok Trú. Light and Faith.

Since House Arendel was founded, it has become the greatest ally of the Tijrslant royal family, a power within its own right, and a vanguard against aggression from the northern Deutschlanders. The current head of House Arendel holds the title of Hertog van der Valjâer (that is, Duke of the Valjeer).

DUSTEEN KAISER ARENDEL DE AANVOEDER, Hertog van der Valjâer, former knight of the Order of the Manticore. Earth mage; direwolf famliliar.

— his wife, KARINA "KARIN" DÈSIRÈE VAN MAILLART DE STORMDIUVALIN, Hertogin van der Valjâer, former knight of the Order of the Manticore. Wind mage; manticore familiar.

— his children:

— ÈLÈONORE ALBERTINA ARENDEL DE BOUWMEVROUW, Chief Engineer of Earth Magic at the Tijrslant Institute of Arcane Research, formerly engaged to Count van Burgund. Earth mage; tiger familiar. Aged twenty-five.

— CATTLEYA YVETTE ARENDEL, Vrouw van der Fraaibrontje, bedridden with an unknown affliction. Earth mage; stag familiar. Aged twenty-two.

— LOUISE FRANCISKA ARENDEL DE NUL, third year student of the Alviss Institute of Tijrslant, nicknamed "Denulotta" by classmates, betrothed to Burggraaf Vaarijs-Holtaas van Waerden. Affinity unknown. Aged fourteen.

— his household, abridged:

— HEILNAAM VAN VALJÂER, Seneschal of the Valjâer manor.

— KARLOTTA VAN MAILLART, Court Priestess of House Arendel, mistress of the library, former tutor of Dusteen's children, older sister of Karina. Water mage; swan familiar.

— LODEWIJK VAN WAERDEN, Marshall of the Valjâer manor.

— DAPHNE, vampire, sister of Amethyst, adopted into the Arendel family, aunt and former tutor to Dusteen's children.

— AMETHYST, vampire, sister of Daphne, adopted into the Arendel family, aunt and former tutor to Dusteen's children.

The lords in service to Hertog Dusteen Arendel van der Valjâer are the Graaf van Guldre, and the markgraafs van Luik, van Raafheem, and van Waerden.

[the-bitch-files]

Great LAW & ORDER: SVU Guest Stars (And Where Else You Might Have Seen Them)

As one of the longest-running prime-time crime procedural dramas on TV, which is currently entering its 26th season, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has had its fair share of guest stars. From those actors appearing on the show before making it big, to big stars (including Oscar and Emmy winners!) popping in for a guest appearance, SVU has attracted a range of talent, just like its parent show, Law & Order.

Below is a list of various guest stars from Law & Order: SVU, split into different categories to tell you where you might have seen them before. The list is under the cut, since it's a pretty long list!

BOARDWALK EMPIRE

Michael Pitt (Jimmy Darmody) - S3xE13 "Prodigy" Paul Sparks (Mickey Doyle) - S2xE08 "Manhunt" Michael Shannon (Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller) - S6xE13 "Quarry" Christiane Seidel (Sigrid Mueller) - S12xE01 "Locum" Michael K. Williams (Chalky White) - S5xE11 "Escape" & S8xE07 "Underbelly" Paz De La Huerta (Lucy Danzinger) - S1xE18 "Chat Room" Bobby Cannavale (Gyp Rossetti) - S3xE11 "Monogamy" Patricia Arquette (Sally Wheet) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred" Brian Geraghty (Agent Warren Knox/Jim Tolliver) - S11x11 "Quickie" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer"

RIVERDALE

Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper) - S13xE09 "Lost Traveler" Casey Cott (Kevin Keller) - S18xE19 "Conversion" Skeet Ulrich (FP Jones) - S12xE03 "Behave" Marisol Nichols (Hermione Lodge) - S05xE03 "Mother" Luke Perry (Fred Andrews) - S10x01 "Trials"

CHILD STARS

Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) - S06xE01 "Birthright" Jennette McCurdy (iCarly) - S06xE11 "Contagious" Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Maleficent, Super 8) - S08xE08 "Cage" Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) - S13xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts"

MODERN FAMILY

Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) - S10xE01 "Trials" Sarah Hyland (Haley Dunphy) - S03xE01 "Repression" & S10xE12 "Hothouse" Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) - S03xE15 "Execution" Ariel Winter (Alex Dunphy) - S21xE02 "The Darkest Journey Home"

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

Natasha Lyonne (Nicky Nichols) - S13xE08 "Educated Guess" Samira Wiley (Poussey Washington) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice" Pablo Schreiber (George 'Pornstache' Mendez) - S08xE15 "Haystack" as Dan Kozlowski), S14-15 (as William Lewis) Elizabeth Rodríguez (Aleida Diaz) - S13xE14 "Home Invasions" Laura Gómez (Blanca Flores) - S16 Laverne Cox (Sophia Burset) - S09xE16 "Closet" Taryn Manning (Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Dogget) - S12xE12 "Possessed"

TEEN SHOW & MOVIE STARS

Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) - S9xE03 "Impulsive" Peter Gallagher (the OC) - S16, S17, S18, S19 & S20 James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) - S13xE20 "Father Dearest" Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) - S16xE07 "Chicago Crossover" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer" Mischa Barton (the OC) - S11xE14 "Savior" Ian Somerhalder (the Vampire Diaries) - S4xE20 "Dominance" Paul Wesley (the Vampire Diaries) - S2xE01 "Wrong is Right" & S7xE04 "Ripped" Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Scream 4, Ice Princess) - S02xE11 "Abuse" & S06xE15 "Hooked" Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Jennifer's Body) - S06xE05 "Outcry" Brittany Snow (John Tucker Must Die, Pitch Perfect) - S07xE22 "Influence" Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Party of Five, Can't Hardly Wait) - S12xE03 "Behave" Matthew Lillard (Scream, She's All That) - S10xE16 "Ballerina" Mae Whitman (the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tinker Bell, One Fine Day) - S09xE11 "Streetwise"

SITCOM STARS

Debra Messing (Will & Grace) - S12xE17 "Pursuit" Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) - S11x02 "Sugar" John Stamos (Full House) - S12xE22 "Bang" Bob Saget (Full House) - S8x09 "Choreographed" Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) - S05xE23 "Bound" Dreama Walker (Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23) - S16xE10 "Forgiving Rollins" Rainn Wilson (The Office) - S04x08 "Waste" Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) - S17E22 & E23 "Intersection Lives" & "Heartfelt Passages" Henry Winkler (Happy Days) - S03xE20 "Greed" Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers, Frasier) - S01xE03 "...Or Just Look Like One"

MCU STARS

Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) - S6xE20 "Night" Zoe Saldana (Gamora) - S5xE21 "Criminal" Alfred Molina (Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus) - S6xE20 "Night" Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter) - S08xE14 "Dependent"

TV STARS

Kyle Maclachan (Desperate Housewives, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) - S06xE06 "Conscience" & S13xE03 "Blood Brothers" Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) - S9x01 "Alternate" Bradley Whitford (the West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) - S15xE22 "Reasonable Doubt" & S24xE15 "King of the Moon" Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer, 9-1-1) - S12x03 "Behave" Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, the Mandolorian, the Last of Us) - S12xE24 "Smoked" Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) - S07x02 "Design" Wentworth Miller (The Flash, Prison Break) - S11x01 "Unstable" (as Nate Kendall), S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address" & S22x06 "the Long Arm of the Witness" (as Isaiah Holmes)

DISNEY STARS (both movie & channel)

Britt Robinson (Avalon High, Tomorrowland) - S10xE05 "Babes" Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire, Cadet Kelly) - S10xE19 "Selfish" Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) - S12E12 "Possessed" Peyton List (Jesse) - S12xE12 "Possessed" (also star of Cobra Kai!)

MOVIE STARS

Kate Mara (The Martian, Fantastic Four) - S02xE09 "Pixies" Rooney Mara (The Social Network, Carol) - S07xE20 "Fat" Sarah Paulson (Down With Love, Ocean's 8) - S11xE12 "Shadow" Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Say Anything) - S16E15 "Undercover Mother" & S16E23 "Surrendering Noah" Martin Short (Father of the Bride, Three Amigos) - S06xE18 "Pure" Alec Baldwin (Beetlejuice, Glengarry Glen Ross) - S15x18 "Criminal Stories" Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act, Ghost) - S17xE04 "Institutional Fail" Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Leave the World Behind) - S11x01 "Unstable" Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With a Vengeance, the Lion King) - S12xE13 "Mask" & S12xE20 "Totem" Adam Driver (Star Wars, Marriage Story) - S13x11 "Theatre Tricks" Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino) - four episode arc as ADA Jo Marlowe in season 11 Patricia Arquette (Bringing Out the Dead, True Romance) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred" Joan Cusack (Working Girl, Toy Story 2, Addams Family Values) - S12xE01 "Locum" Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Red Dawn, Some Kind of Wonderful) - S06xE01 "Birthright"

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

Robin Williams (Mr. Keating) - S09xE117 "Authority" Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher" Josh Charles (Knox Overstreet) - S10x302 "Confession" James Waterson (Gerard Pitts) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable" & S18xE17 "Real Fake News"

BROADWAY / THEATRE STARS

Raúl Esparza - S14-19, Rafael Barba Andy Karl - S17, Mike Dodds Alex Brightman - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private" Eve Noblezada - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private" Roger Bart - S14xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts" Billy Porter - S15xE07 "Dissonant Voices" Patti LuPone - S16xE11 "Agent Provocateur" Daveed Diggs - S17xE05 "Community Policing" & S17xE13 "Forty-One Witnesses Leslie Odom Jr. - S17xE05 "Community Policing" Laura Benanti - S13-15, Maria Grazie (Nick Amaro's wife) Jefferson Mays - S16-17, Carl Rudnick Audra Macdonald - S01xE19 "Contact" & S01xE22 "Slaves" Aaron Tviet - S11xE10 "Beef" & S13xE02 "Personal Fouls"

HOUSE M.D.

Robert Sean Leonard (James Wilson) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher" Kal Penn (Lawrence Kutner) - S08xE12 "Outsider" Peter Jacobson (Chris Taub) - S13xE23 "Rhodium Nights," S14xE01 "Lost Reputation," S14xE02 "Above Suspicion" (as Bart Ganzel), S19xE01 "Gone Fishin'" & S19xE13 "The Undiscovered Country" (as Randy Dworkin) Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas) - S08xE16 "Philadelphia," S08x19 "Florida," S08x22 "Screwed," S13xE16 "Child's Welfare," & S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address" Zena Grey (Ruby) - S04xE15 "Pandora" Andre Braugher (Darryl Nolan) - 6 episodes across seasons 13, 14 & 16

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

Marcia Cross (Bree Van de Kamp) - S16xE16 "December Solstice" Kyle McLachlan (Orson Hodge) - S06xE06 "Conscience," S13xE03 "Blood Brothers" Mark Moses (Paul Young) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable," S18xE16 "The Newsroom" J.C. MacKenzie (Walter Bierlich) - S7-24 as Brian Ackerman in S7 & S12, and Counsellor Richard Price in S18 & S23-24 Cody Kasch (Zach Young) - S07xE06 "Raw" Richard Burgi (Karl Mayer) - S11xE15 "Confidential"

[gameforestdach]

Marvels bevorstehendes Crossover-Event, Blood Hunt, steht kurz davor, Fans mit seiner vampirzentrierten Handlung zu fesseln und bringt eine beispiellose Wendung in das Marvel-Universum im Frühjahr 2024. Einführung von Vampiren in einer zentralen Rolle innerhalb des Marvel-Universums. Einbeziehung von beliebten Charakteren in eine neue, düstere Erzählung. Erwartung einer akribisch ausgearbeiteten Handlung mit tiefen historischen Wurzeln. Über Blood Hunt Unter der kreativen Leitung von Jed MacKay, Pepe Larraz und Marte Gracia soll Blood Hunt die Präsenz von Vampiren in Marvels Überlieferungen neu definieren. Das Event zielt darauf ab, Vampire nicht nur als bloße Antagonisten im Schatten darzustellen, sondern als mächtige Kräfte, die ins Rampenlicht treten und Helden im gesamten Universum herausfordern. Mit einer Geschichte, die sowohl Horror als auch Heldentum verspricht, erzeugt Blood Hunt bedeutendes Interesse für seinen kühnen thematischen Schwerpunkt und sein Potenzial, in Marvels umfangreiche Vampir-Mythologie einzutauchen. Die Handlung Das narrative Gerüst des Events ist vor einem Hintergrund der Dunkelheit angesiedelt, wobei Vampire auftauchen, um die Marvel-Helden in einem apokalyptischen Showdown herauszufordern. Charaktere wie die Avengers, Blade, Spider-Man und Doctor Strange werden diesem vampirischen Ansturm begegnen und eine komplexe Geschichte weben, die die Tiefe von Marvels Vampirgeschichte erforscht. Diese narrative Strategie zielt nicht nur darauf ab, zu unterhalten, sondern auch das Marvel-Universum mit einer Handlung zu bereichern, die vergangene und gegenwärtige Vampir-Überlieferungen verbindet. Erwartung und Einfluss Marvels Chefredakteur C.B. Cebulski hat Blood Hunt mit ikonischen Handlungen wie Civil War und Secret Invasion verglichen, was die Bedeutung des Events und seinen sorgfältig aufgebauten Höhepunkt unterstreicht. Während Leser Hinweise aus verschiedenen Comics zusammensetzen, wächst die Erwartung rund um Blood Hunt kontinuierlich und verspricht eine Handlung voller hoher Einsätze und dramatischer Wendungen für das Marvel-Universum. Bald verfügbar Mit der geplanten Veröffentlichung von Blood Hunt #1 am 1. Mai 2024 warten Fans gespannt auf das, was als "die letzte Nacht der Erde" beschrieben wird. Dieses Event ist nicht nur eine Auseinandersetzung mit Vampiren, sondern auch eine Feier von Marvels Erzählkunst, die eine vielfältige Besetzung von Charakteren für einen Kampf zusammenbringt, der das Gewebe des Marvel-Universums verändern könnte. Für weitere Einblicke in das umfangreiche Event Blood Hunt, einschließlich eines genaueren Blicks auf das neue Avengers-Team und die Rückkehr von Morbius, besuche GamesRadar+.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, April 15th

GILES: There's a Watchers' retreat every year in the Cotswolds. (walks to the other end of the table) It's a lovely spot. It's very s-serene. (everyone listens) There's horse riding and hiking and punting (smiles) and lectures and discussions. It-i-it's... it's a great honor to be invited. (a tad bitter) Or so I'm told.

~~Faith, Hope, & Trick~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least one new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more here.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Backstage 47: “the Price of Lace” by aadler (G)

Shipwreck by apachefirecat (Buffy/Faith, PG/K+)

Purge by SomeKindOfADeviant (Spike/Drusilla, T)

A misogynist faces the Demon Wolf by Bl4ckHunter (Warren, Teen Wolf crossover, T)

Who Am I? by AJ Fields (myfanfiction) (Anya, G)

Bring Me Back To Life by ialwayscomewhenyoucall (poetry, Buffy/Spike)

Hysteria...A Woman's Disease by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 383 by madimpossibledreamer (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, T)

Vamp Fashion, Chapter 3 (complete!) by adella_green (Spike/Proinsias Cassidy, Spike/Dracula, Preacher and What We Do In the Shadows crossover, T)

Lost and Found, Chapter 3 by BlakeStorm (Buffy & Sam Winchester, Supernatural crossover, T)

A Coalition of Heroes, Chapter 11 by Aragorn_II_Elessar (Ensemble, Supernatural and Charmed, T)

William „Der Blutige“ Shakespeare, Chapter 3 by Lilith464 (Ensemble, E, German language)

Mostly Harmless, Chapter 14 by Lady Emma (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Mostly Harmless, Chapter 15 by Lady Emma (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Key Saves Spuffy, Chapters 14-15 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

42, Chapters 14-15 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Back Through The Woods, Chapter 7 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, R)

Trying, Chapter 19 by Pet35 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

So One of Us is Living, Chapter 5 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Belonging, Chapters 11-15 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Those 2 again, Chapter 3 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

Origin Story of Shanna Brown, Chapter 36 by Cristina (Buffy, Merlin and other crossovers, FR18)

The Butcher, Chapter 16 by Grief Counseling (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Postcards and Snapshots, Chapters 5-6 by TheSunnySlayer (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Those 2 again, Chapter 3 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

The Home Invasions, Chapter 3 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Here we go again, the two of us, Chapter 1 by LJ94 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Harmony by emmatheslayer (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy/Spike by feyspeaker (worksafe)

Artwork: spuffy wip based on my fav picture of billy idol by snoozieart (worksafe)

Artwork: Spike by vampywillz (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy by marveletplus (worksafe)

Artwork: Angel sketch by kingbuffy (worksafe)

Headers: Buffy Summers + BtVS Season 5 headers by onegirlinallthewrld (worksafe)

Bar chart race: Top 10 cartoons/comics/graphic novel fandoms on AO3 based on number of fanworks (2009-2022) by bakanokiwami

Fanvid: Buffy/Angel ''Sweet Dreams'' college project by Wearer of the cheese

Fanvid: buffy & angel | all of the girls by a.

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel are doomed love by Driad (slideshow)

Music: Close Your Eyes - Buffy and Angel Love Theme (Piano Cover) by Gishin' Around

[Reviews & Recaps]

The first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by staringdownabarrel

Buffy yearbook by kingbuffy

Found a Buffy book I haven’t read [Blood and Fog] by btvs_historian

Podcast: 7.16 – "Storyteller" by If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

[Recs]

Late Night Talk, Buffy/Joyce by badly_knitted recced by petzipellepingo

[Community Announcements]

The SAD Transcript Library

[Fandom Discussions]

the way buffy the vampire slayer uses guns is really interesting by fallingtowers

[Angel/Angelus] the split-divide identities/personalities thing by Girl4Music

Did Faith sign Buffy's yearbook? by kingbuffy

There’s something very funny about Faith’s plan to unleash Angelus in Enemies by nevergonnabemuchmorethanweather

touch starved cangel is just soooooo good and interesting by someonefantastic

Cordelia and Angel by therulerofallpotatos

Angel by wolfstrong

My bold take is I think Spike should’ve eaten Parker by disco-tea

Explain to me how Willow and Tara are just living in Buffy’s house spending all of her money by levelzerohermit

When even the demon bar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is chill with gender neutral bathrooms by levelzerohermit

cordelia and caroline vs. lydia by mimi-dracula

Do you like Kennedy? continued by multiple posters

What did you guys think when you saw Dawn for the first time? by Sinmerina

Why do so many people dislike Tara? continued by multiple posters

Fred all alone by MoreGull

For all of the “I’ve finished Buffy but didn’t like Angel. Should I watch Angel?” by Dry-Dragonfruit5216

Do you think Sunnydale will be rebuilt? by aeryn1227

Buffy season 7 is a misunderstood masterpiece! by D_B_4986

Buffy Billboards by btvs_historian

Do you think Giles fished out all the scoobies diplomas from the rubble? by SmurfSmeg

Sunnydale high shouldn’t be allowed to continue to function with how many people are being murdered by NotCharAznable

Do you feel bad for [Robin Wood and Billy Ford]? by Opening_Knowledge868

I'm feeling quite a quality drop in season 5 compared to 3 and 4 by Thestickleman

Angel season 5 worth it? by Hot-Face2471

Giles as a father figure by _lilith_and_eve_

Prophesy Girl, all the fuss about the prom dress by Inoutngone

Foreshadowing with Snyder by Eagles56

How in the world was this scene from Double Meat Allowed to Air? by aeryn1227

The Gay Buffy Video: Once More With Queering by Lily Simpson

Video: How Tara Became the Best Character by Better with Bob?

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The Cartmel Masterplan

The Actual Text, Posted Online for the First Time

A generous friend has shared with me the full text of “Gallifrey: Notes on the Planet's Background” – Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, and Marc Platt’s original outline of their masterplan for the Doctor’s origins – as printed in Virgin Books’ 1996 Doctor Who: A History of the Universe. Please see also Lance Parkin’s explanatory footnote and my commentary beneath!

The planet Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords in the constellation of Kasterborous, is one of the oldest and most powerful oligarchies in the universe. Its political and scientific influence is prevalent throughout the cosmos. But it is a world apart. Its power is substantially used for observation rather than involvement. Over the millennia, its self-imposed isolation has made it a staid and decaying society, obsessed with its own self-importance and tradition. It was not always so…

Ancient Gallifrey in The Old Time or The Dark Time, the Time of Chaos, was a world of both questing endeavour and dark superstition. It was the heart of a space-faring Empire, the hub of trade and commerce between other worlds. But the Gallifreyans were a race cursed with communal telepathy. The majority of the populous shared each others’ minds and thoughts. No mind was alone. The superstitious people worshipped the Menti Celesti – literally, heavenly minds – who were the free-thinking Gods.

By training or natural ability, some Gallifreyans could achieve private thoughts: an individuality above the mass mind of the general populous. They became revered Heroes: great philosophers, scientists and explorers, much in the style of the Greek Heroes, renowned for their deeds and derring-do.

Ancient Gallifrey was governed by the line of Pythias, wise seer women, who saw the future. The Empire prospered under their rule, but for all its enlightened education and scientific advancement, their reign also encompassed barbarism.

Amongst the ideas and goods traded through the Empire, there were also slaves. A primitive Time Scoop was employed to import alien servants and gladiators for the Games enacted in the Death Zone. Such popular “entertainment” provided an outlet for the extremes of emotion that telepathic crowd behaviour could engender. Thus through a skilful mix of manipulation and superstition, the ruling Pythia was able to control Gallifrey and its Empire.

Rassilon, a high ranking Hero, saw that the stifling authority of the Pythias threatened Gallifrey’s true destiny as a supreme galactic power. He stood for the influence of Reason against the Pythian reign of superstition. His skills as a tactician had defeated an invasion of Vampires that threatened the whole galaxy. He knew that Gallifrey could not progress until the aimless telepathic abilities of the people were given purpose. With a group of supporters, he deposed the Pythia and set about the restructuring of all Gallifreyan society. This period of cultural renaissance became known as the Intuitive Revelation.

The followers of the Pythia fled to Karn and set up a quasi-religious cult as guardians of a flame fountain that distilled an Elixir of eternal life.

Rassilon undertook to reform Gallifreyan society and thus consolidate the planet’s supremacy. Aware of the corrupting influence of absolute power, he repeatedly rejected the offers of a coronation, announcing that he could not rule the planet alone.

The suicidal end of the line of the Pythias had one immediate and deadly effect on Gallifrey. The Pythia embodied the fertility of the planet, she was Gallifrey itself. As she took her own life, the last of the line cursed the planet in revenge for her overthrow. Gallifrey became a sterile world. There were no more children. Unborn babies died in their mothers’ wombs. Rassilon was forced to find an immediate answer, before the Gallifreyans became extinct.

Eager to hold Gallifrey to ransom, the Sisterhood of Kam offered the salvation of their elixir. But in the face of disaster, Rassilon was able to forge a fresh solution.

From the existing hierarchy of Gallifrey, a new social design was evolved. Power was shared through a High Council whose members represented the Chapterhouses of Gallifrey. Each Chapter comprised groups of the ancient Families of Gallifrey, of whom Rassilon saw the need for legislative control to stabilise dwindling population numbers.

It was decreed that each Family would have a genetic bank known as a Loom, from which a set quota of Family members would be generated. Bio-genetic engineering would allow the Gallifreyans to regenerate their bodies at the moment of death through a sequence of thirteen lives. At the end of the final life, when a Family member died, a new replacement member was generated on the Family Loom. Parents have not existed on Gallifrey since this time; all family members are Cousins to one another. (This makes the business of Susan being the Doctor’s granddaughter all the more intriguing…)

The Looms were installed in all Family Houses across Gallifrey. Each House was adapted as bio-architecture, programmed to serve and look after its incumbent family. These were living buildings invested with a low degree of sentient awareness, even encompassed in their furniture and fittings.

Families were headed by the most senior Cousin. One other was selected as a Housekeeper, an interactive medium between the Cousins and the living House itself. The House would become as much a part of a Family as its Loom or its Cousins; occasionally with frighteningly possessive results!

The Chapters had their own Academies whose leaders were appointed as Cardinals to serve on the High Council in the newly constructed Vatican-like Capitol. The “Civil Service” members supporting the Council were known as Ordinals. Below them came the plebeian classes, trained as skilled technicians and artisans.

As a symbol of power, Rassilon had the Matrix developed: a vast extra-dimensional panotropic computer net containing all the information amassed by Gallifreyan culture. It stored all research and postulation, and the mind of every dying Gallifreyan passed into its capacity. Thus it could predict the future and give judgement on the past. As such, the Matrix is Gallifrey, the essence of that planet and its culture. In many ways, the Matrix replaced the Pythia, if not in wilful delegation, at least as a living repository of all knowledge.

To achieve his reforms, Rassilon needed vast resources of energy. He found an ally in Omega, the chief of the scientific fraternity and also a Cousin of Rassilon. But while Rassilon was the practical strategist laying foundations for a new society, and Omega was the provider, there was a third, darker figure; an “Eminence Grise”, with whom power was shared in an inner sanctum before plans were laid for the judgement of the High Council.

His origins, birthplace, even appearance are an unrecorded mystery. He never served on the High Council. Some legends hint that he may not have been born on Gallifrey, others that he was endowed with powers far greater than either Rassilon or Omega, but he kept these veiled beneath the Gallifreyan shape he wore. How influential his role really was is uncertain. His presence as part of the Triumvirate has always been overshadowed by the myriad achievements of Rassilon and the martyrdom of Omega; he was known simply as “the Other”. Nevertheless, a minor festival known as Otherstide is annually celebrated in his honour.

Under the rule of the Pythia, experiments had started into time travel. Rassilon deemed their use of telepathy as a travel source to be dangerous, but still rationalised their basic concepts for his own experiments.

To develop time travel as a completely viable facility, Omega estimated that a preliminary energy source equal to a supernova was required. He developed a remote stellar manipulator device which would induce the controlled detonation of a star and channel the energy released back to Gallifrey. This device was known as the “Hand of Omega”.

The device succeeded in its task and Gallifrey acquired the energy source it needed, but Omega, who had gone to oversee the project himself, was lost in the supernova explosion. His sacrifice offered unlimited power to the Gallifreyans. They truly became Time Lords.

In their early days as Time Lords, the catastrophic destruction of the planet Minyos, whose inhabitants sought to emulate their “gods” the Gallifreyans, emphasised the need for radical change in Gallifrey’s role in galactic politics.

After Omega’s death, the remaining two-thirds of the Triumvirate set about consolidating Gallifrey’s position. Two courses were open to the Time Lords: to control the universe as supreme rulers; or to act as guardians, overseeing the natural development of time and space. Either way their own position had to be unassailable. Gallifrey itself had to be protected.

In an astonishing feat of engineering, Rassilon entered the black hole left by Omega’s supernova and sealed its vast singularity energy in an icon of power known as the “Eye of Harmony”. He brought the Eye back to Gallifrey and so balanced the existence of the planet against the colossal energy source of the black star. Gallifrey was now unassailable.

Ironically, the stabilising influence of the Eye of Harmony has surely affected Time Lord society as well. Over millennia, development has steadily ground slower and slower; Gallifreyan culture has become less adventurous, and more complacently staid. The people’s telepathic abilities have also dwindled. Rassilon’s legacy and laws still guide the Time Lords, but the meanings of many of his icons of power are now lost. (The line of Pythias also survives, not only on Karn, but in other offshoot manifestations – witness Lady Peinforte.)

Another product of the Intuitive Revelation was validium, a living metal, created as an ultimate defence for Gallifrey. The metal could think for itself, but in the wrong hands might act as a generator of destruction. It eventually proved itself too dangerous to be employed. Too many enemy forces were gaining access to the element and so the largest section was secreted away from Gallifrey in an asteroid where, it was hoped, it would be safe from interference.

While both Rassilon and Omega were virtually canonised, if not deified, there were no further records of the Other in any of the histories. Speculation says that he left Gallifrey altogether; legend says that he grew weary of being an all-powerful player at the chess game of the universe. Instead he longed to be a pawn on the board in the thick of the action. Common sense says that he retired quietly.

Footnote

This is virtually the whole of the text of a document ‘Gallifrey – Notes on the Planet’s Background (from ideas prepared for the Doctor Who TV series)’ by Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch and Marc Platt. The document was written for Virgin, is dated 9.11.90, and comes to six and a half sides of A4 paper, including the coversheet. It outlines what fans have called ‘The Cartmel Master Plan’ – an attempt during the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth series on television to redefine the origins of the Doctor and that of the planet Gallifrey, to reintroduce mystery to the series’ basic set-up, and to suggest that much of what we had been told about the Time Lords and the Doctor had been deliberately fabricated (as such, it doesn’t answer all the questions it raises). On-screen the ‘Master Plan’ was mainly confined to a handful of obscure references (and a handful more that were cut before broadcast).

The document embraces concepts from The Deadly Assassin, Silver Nemesis, The Five Doctors, State of Decay, The Brain of Morbius, The Invasion of Time, Arc to Infinity, Trial of a Time Lord, Remembrance of the Daleks (and Ben Aaronovitch’s novelisation of his story), The Three Doctors, Underworld, The Time Monster and Planet of the Spiders, as well as two unmade Marc Platt stories, Cat’s Cradle and Lungbarrow. A number of the New Adventures have adopted ideas from the document, including the first two novels by Platt and Aaronovitch, Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible and Transit.

The last half-page of the document outlines the Doctor’s link to his planet’s ancient history and explains the origins of his granddaughter, Susan. It must remain a secret – for the moment at least. Anyone speculating about the contents of this last page ought to bear in mind that the Virgin Writers’ Guide categorically states that ‘The Other is not the Doctor’.

Commentary

With the exception of my italicized note at the top, everything above came from Doctor Who: A History of the Universe, and everything below is written by me, the blogger. Thank you again to my brilliant and talented friend – the Other to my Rassilon – who shared with me the pictures of the above!

A few thoughts based on the above:

As Parkin’s footnote points out, A History omits the last half-page of the original text, which explained Susan’s origin and the Other’s reincarnation into the Doctor. Since A History was released in May 1996, almost a full year before Lungbarrow gave these answers, it makes sense that this part was redacted. But if the details of the First Doctor’s rescue of Susan were written as early as 1990 and known to Virgin’s authors from the start of the New Adventures, how did we end up with the conflicting description of her rescue in Cold Fusion?

Much of this content clearly ended up in Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible, as Parkin’s footnote mentions: the Gallifreyan Heroes, the Pythia, her suicide and curse, etc. (Presumably Lungbarrow just as faithfully adapts the material from the omitted half-page.) But I’m not particularly clear what Transit has to do with it! Was this just Virgin Books plugging their own content, or did I miss something major?

Just as in Time’s Crucible, the authors follow the explanation of Looms by explicitly pointing out the apparent contradiction with Susan calling the Doctor “Grandfather”. Hopefully this will finally kill the longstanding rumor that Looms are bad because they contradict An Unearthly Child: the creators knew exactly what they were doing.

I was clearly incorrect the other day to assert that “no source has actually linked Omega’s star with the Eye of Harmony”! Not only is this explicit in the Masterplan, it’s also mentioned in The Infinity Doctors. Mea culpa!

The Eye of Harmony’s “stabilising influence” being the cause of Gallifreyan societal stagnation was never explicitly explored or stated anywhere in the Doctor Who stories that followed, but it did manifest through the concept of the Anchoring of the Thread in the Faction Paradox series. The Book of the War didn’t merely copy Platt’s “Great Houses” language, it fulfilled parts of the Masterplan that other authors had neglected.

I knew that Quences identified his title as “Ordinal-General” in Lungbarrow, but I’d never caught the Cardinal / Ordinal pun. Too good!

Similarly: I am increasingly uncomfortable with the fact that “Celestis” is clearly a plural noun for “Celesti”, which means I’ll have to rethink all of my grammar 😟

Please let me know your thoughts!

[the-melting-world]

Strength | Side B: “Chasing Dials”

Art by @ligiawrites

~ In which a secretive barhand brings in the new year…

The Trio Appearances: Kipling | Khleo | Ozy

Arcana LI appearances: Asra | Nadia | Lucio | Valdemar

Track Origins: “Chasing Dials” by Blanco White

Not sure if this is the right track? The full album can be found here: Strength

Khleo is Non-binary and uses she/they pronouns interchangeably

cw: alcohol, implications of vampirism, mentions of blood

~  2.3k words

***

Fireworks broke and rained hot glitter over the southern border of Center City and Goldgrave. A handful of bartenders were off duty and on the move.  

Khlee von Heine walked among them. She was the only one who hadn’t taken the time to change out of her work clothes. Her coworkers were loud, merry, and prone to recklessness as they stumbled from one pop-up bar crawl to the next. 

“Another year,” Gabe managed to roar over the next round of fireworks. “Can you believe we fucking did it?” He took a deep swig from the communal growler. The night was far from young and the barhands had lost track over how many times they refilled it. Gabe reluctantly handed it off to the next coworker so they could say their piece.

Khlee hung back in order to stand under a wooden arch whose sign was eclipsed in dead vines. But Khleo had committed its message to memory years ago.

Der Biergarten.

The plot of land overgrown in weeds and other invasive species was still up for sale, to Khleo’s relief. Though it was out of the way on most of her delivery routes, Khleo did her best to stop by every now and then. Just to make sure no one had bought up the property.

The barhand checked to see that her coworkers were distracted as she stepped up and snatched a flyer with the lot info off the gate. She folded it up and quickly tucked it in her pocket before the arm of a good friend looped around her neck. 

Basil leaned on Khleo as he pressed the convex surface of the growler against her sternum.

“Your turn.”

Khleo playfully shoved him off of her, but kept the growler. She took a sip. Basil and the other barhands chided her — she was supposed to make a toast.

“Fine. Fine.” Khleo held up the bottle. “To progress.”

They made a show of peering into the depths of the amber glass. “Maybe this year we’ll get lucky and actually make some, yeah?”

Someone snatched the growler out of their hand. Gwendolyn? Max? The streets were too dark to tell.

Khleo’s friends were off. They blended in with the city’s bar crawlers as they chased down the next booze cart. People wanted refills that night, not whatever Khleo was about to say next.

Later when Khleo had returned to her apartment, she traded her work clothes for something softer and more comfortable. Then she dug through the pocket of her discarded jacket and retrieved the folded up flyer.

It was a short walk from her kitchen to the bedroom. There was no bed frame or vanity, just three lumpy mattresses stacked on top of each other that she rescued from the alley when she first moved in.

The room was already small, but it felt even more congested thanks to the uneven piles of text, of which there two types — loose leaf recipes or pages ripped out of cookbooks and cheap serial novels with depictions of bejeweled dragons on the covers.

The only piece of real furniture around was an antique dresser, the drawers of which were broken and jutting out like crooked teeth.

All except one.

Khleo took a deep breath before crouching and using both hands to work the bottom drawer open. Like always, it did not come quietly, but with a little patience and a lot of swearing, Khleo managed to pull it out.

Most of the drawer’s contents belonged to her late adoptive father, Hans von Heine. However, it was an unmarked jar that Khleo reached for. She screwed it open and tucked the flyer for the piece of real estate between old flyers and newspaper clippings back when the garden used to host events. The jar had cash in it too. Whatever Khleo could spare went into the jar. Most of it came from what was left of her tips after paying rent, bills, and whoever she needed in order to keep certain people off her back and out of her business.

Khleo sealed the jar and did her best to ignore the tightness in her chest as she struggled to get the drawer to shut all the way. Once she had, she found that her breathing had become more than a little unsteady. It only got worse when she heard the fireworks going off outside.

Khleo shut their eyes and leaned their forehead against one of the crooked drawers, trying not to dwell too much on where they were this time last here. As it turned out, they were right here, drunk and crying at the foot of this very dresser.

Khleo curled up on their side. Yes, tonight their head was buzzing from the alcohol, somehow both heavy and light. Yes, the tears had found their way to the surface again. Khleo was never one to hold them in as long as they could find the space to spill them. 

Things would be different this year, Khleo told themself. They would make sure of it this time.

***

(Lucio’s POV)

Lucio hated the smell of this place. Rotting and damp. It was hard to believe that they were still in Vesuvia.

“You always have such a sour expression on your face whenever I come to feed. Why so, my Count?”

The silky, sardonic voice belonged to Lucio’s host, Quaestor Valdemar. 

“Don’t call me that,” Lucio snapped. He wanted to fold his arms and stifle some of the shivers running up his back, but he couldn’t as long as he was hooked up to Valdemar’s device.

“My apologies, Lucio,” Valdemar corrected themself coolly.

Another shiver climbed up Lucio’s neck as he bit back the urge to say, I don’t want to be called that either.

“Tell me, what plagues you?” They added with a chuckle. “Don’t you like your living arrangement?”

Ever since cutting a deal with the scientist turned demon, Lucio had been living out his days in the lowest cellar of the Lazaret. When he was first brought back from the Devil’s realm, he had been too weak to demand anything else. At the time, all he cared about was that he was alive and wouldn’t be devoured by the courtiers.

Lucio glanced at the tube looping around his forearm, its transparent pathways already inflated with his blood.

But at what cost?

Lucio grinded his teeth. It was too late to consider that now. 

This was how it always went anyway. Lucio would be presented with an opportunity — a way to improve what he could not on his own. He would leap at it, no questions asked.

Why, after all this time, after all those treacherous dealings could he not bring himself to stop and think things through?

As the last of Valdemar’s toll left his body, Lucio started to wonder what his mother might say about all of this. But he’d rather eat another shitty bargain than go down that road right now.

“Your contribution to our arrangement hasn’t been as satisfying compared to when we first began.”

“What are you trying to say?” Despite his nasty tone, Lucio was grateful for the distraction. “My blood’s not tasty enough for you?”

“It used to be,” Valdemar said. “I’ll be honest with you, Lucio, I agreed to keep you around as an energy reserve primarily for that reason. The notion of devouring you in one sitting and having to share with my dear contemporaries was not nearly as attractive as the possibility of having your flesh to dine on whenever I needed to during this indefinite campaign in your current reality.”

Lucio hissed as Valdemar unceremoniously removed the needle from his vein. He wasn’t sure how to react to what he had just heard. Thanks to Valdemar’s mask, all Lucio could read from their expression was the growing crow’s feet at the corners of their blood red eyes.

“So?”

Valdemar applied a cotton wad to the puncture wound and dug it in with their thumb.

“Ow! Hey – Owie!” Lucio yelped.

“So, my Count,” they sweetly clarified as they kept up the pressure, “I need you to find a way to restore that vitality you once possessed. Technically, you’re in peak physical health. I don’t know if you’ve looked in the mirror lately, but the evidence of your tussle with the plague has all but disappeared from your eyes. Your hair has been growing…” they took a moment to scan their critical gaze over the pale blond patches clinging to Lucio’s jaw. “You could easily blend in with the citizens.”

Lucio swallowed. “B-blend in? Why the devil would I want to blend in?”

Valdemar made a less than human sound as they peeled back their mask and bared their needle-sharp teeth at the former Count. 

“Right now you taste like a boneless, gutless, gill-infected inferior breed of mackerel. And I prefer to have rare, mercury-rich, vinegar-glazed bluefin tuna. Captivity is poisoning your blood. So I’m giving you permission to get out there in your beloved city and find a way to sweeten it.”

The Quaestor gave Lucio a not-so-gentle shove in his chair. They replaced their mask as they straightened up. The former Count’s eyes widened as he covered his hand over his arm. The last thing he wanted was to piss off Valdemar. But he didn’t know the first thing when it came to what they were asking him to do. 

“What happens if I can’t, erm… make my blood taste better? What if spending time in the city doesn’t work?”

The Quaestor sighed, their emotions back in check. They were already half occupied with cleaning their instruments and storing the sacks of Lucio’s blood in a portable cooler for later.

“Then I will have no choice but to invite my courtier companions over for a nice potluck dinner.” They glanced up. The crow’s feet were back. “And you’ll be the forgettable appetizer that no one asked for.”

Later, when Valdemar was kind enough to row Lucio across the stretch of water to the mainland, they suggested, “You should find some people who are very healthy. Outside of captivity, fish are the most robust when they’re in competition with other capable anatomies.”

Lucio hugged what was left of his royal uniform – a tattered speckled cape – around his shoulders. He grumbled, “Would you, for fuck’s sake, stop comparing me to a fish, Quaestor?”

Unperturbed, Valdemar said, “We’ve arrived.”

Lucio lowered his hood and blinked out at the morning overcast sky. His top lip curled into a distinctive snarl as he recognized where they were.

“Not here. Anywhere but here.”

Valdemar gestured to the nearest dock. “Get out, Lucio.”

The former Count wanted to blot out the images of the slumped architecture and purge his nostrils of the stale watery stench. 

“Not the Flooded District. I can’t stand this place. Can’t you see that it’s a failure that I don’t need reminding of?”

“Lucio, don’t be so foolish,” Valdemar said almost tenderly as they nudged him out of the boat. “The entire city is your failure. Much of which is hard to see. Oh, but it’s there. Now go on,” they said as if encouraging a child at the fairgrounds, “go find someone healthy. I’ll come to retrieve you in a fortnight’s time.”

Lucio couldn’t believe he was watching Valdemar row off into the mist. He tried to take a deep breath, but the air was so bad that he just ended up coughing. 

Even though Valdemar had been correct about Lucio’s appearance, looking nothing like he did in the days when he was the Count, he still found himself trying to crowd off his features with his hood any time a resident passed him by on the floating, rickety streets. But to his relief, no one seemed to know or even care about who he was or might be. 

As soon as Lucio relaxed his shoulders and began walking with more confidence, the inner walls of his stomach suddenly contracted. Then he remembered. He had just given blood. Lots of it. Usually, the Quaestor supplied him with something to eat, but this time they hadn’t.

“Damn them,” Lucio hissed. He cradled his abdomen like it was made of glass as he tried to make his way towards some kind of common plaza. He had no money, but perhaps he would be able to find a dumpster to rummage through.

He was passing by a narrow alley when he caught a glimpse of the impossible out of the corner of his eye.

A lion.

Its coat was creamy and short all over. Its size was nothing short of mythical. 

Lucio was tempted to shout at the two idiots occupying the alley with this beast on the loose, but they seemed both aware of its presence and entirely calm about it.

One of them was slumped against the wall of the grimy building. Despite their threadbare attire and weary expression, they were smiling at the other. 

“No, Khlee. Please don’t. You’ll be late for work.”

The person squatting before the first seemed to be focused on the task of sewing up what appeared to be rips in a heavy cloak. Even with their short jacket, Lucio could detect the shape of their arms. Their brown curls had enough volume to hide most of the details in their profile.

“Nah. I’m already late. This’ll only take a minute.”

There wasn’t much time to take in the rest of their features before the big cat stepped up, blocking Lucio’s view of them.

< Can I help you? >

Lucio ran. He nearly tripped over himself getting out of there so fast. But he didn’t go far. He gripped the edge of a building and poked his head out, waiting for the lioness and her human to emerge. When they finally did, Quaestor Valdemar’s words from earlier echoed in Lucio’s mind.

Go find someone healthy.

Well, the individual strolling confidently down the street with a full grown lion at their side was definitely looking like the healthy sort.

At the moment, Lucio wasn’t really thinking about what would happen to him if he failed Valdemar’s taste requirements.

Right now, his stomach was hurting. 

If the body of this lion tamer was any indication, they knew where Lucio could find himself a meal.

[caprano]

Fundstück

Halloween

Heute geht es um Halloween, und da ist es unvermeidlich, ja sogar polizeilich vorgeschrieben, den Freunden dieses gruseligen Fests mit kulturkritischem Elan erst einmal Saures zu geben. Halloween, so das einschlägige ceterum censeo, ist doch nur ein primitiver amerikanischer Import, den die Amis einst von den irischen Kelten geklaut haben, ein komplett geistloser Mummenschanz, dem deutschen Wesen so fremd wie Coca-Cola oder Jeans. Zudem verdrängt der invasive Spuk das heimische Allerheiligen-Fest, das als vergleichsweise unsexy gilt und meist nur noch auf Friedhöfen gefeiert wird. Kurz gesagt: Halloween ist ein von finsteren Mächten eingeschleuster Kultur- und Sittenverderber. Da dies nun ausgesprochen und hoffentlich von allen gebilligt ist, können wir zur Sache kommen.

Soeben hat Berlins designierte Regierende Bürgermeisterin Franziska Giffey, vormals Dr. Giffey, den Kindern und Jugendlichen der Stadt empfohlen, zur Normalität zurückzukehren und wieder Halloween zu feiern. Vor einem Jahr war das noch anders. Damals bastelte man noch am Impfstoff herum und Lauterbach & Friends regierten das Land, weshalb Halloween-Partys allenfalls als illegale Geheimveranstaltungen zelebriert wurden, deren grauenerregender Höhepunkt der Sturmangriff eines Polizeikommandos war. Den Kindern wiederum war es verboten, als Monster verkleidet in Stoßtrupps von Tür zu Tür zu marschieren und mit der Drohung "Süßes oder Saures" Leckereien zu erpressen. Nicht alle haben seinerzeit bedauert, dass diese Variante der Bandenkriminalität untersagt war. Aber gut, sollen sie jetzt ihren Spaß haben. Die ehrenvoll ergrauten Bonbons und Kekse aus der Vor-Corona-Zeit müssen auch mal weg.

Nun brauchen sich die Halloween-Monster aber nicht einzubilden, sie könnten zügellos herumspuken wie die Gespenster der Vergangenheit in einem Hohenzollern-Schloss. Auf die Corona-Regeln pocht Frau Giffey schon, also Abstand, Maske und Händewaschen. Die Masken, fügt sie hinzu, "können ja auch gerne gruselig gestaltet sein". Das ist ein pädagogisch wertvoller Tipp, und tatsächlich gibt es FFP2-Masken mit aufgedrucktem Vampir-Gebiss oder fiesem Joker-Grinsen bereits zu kaufen. Was aber ist mit den Hexen-, Geister- und Horrorclown-Fratzen, die man als Rundum-Maske über den Kopf stülpt? Schützen diese auch vor Infektionen? Ein klares Wort von Gesundheitsminister Spahn wäre wünschenswert, so viel Zeit muss sein während des Kofferpackens. Wem das alles zu unsicher ist, muss trotzdem nicht auf Halloween verzichten. Die Königsdisziplin des Fests ist immer noch das Kürbisschnitzen. Dazu benötigt man einen formschönen Kürbis, ein extrem scharfes Messer und jede Menge Verbandsmaterial. Am Ende hat man eine Monstervisage, die so phänomenal ist wie die Suppe, die man auch daraus kochen könnte. SZ)

[amadholius]

Sie stecken doch alle unter einer Decke! Heute morgen wurden alle Schüler:innen, welche sich für den Okkult-Klub eingetragen hatten, ins Büro des Schulleiters bestellt.

Wie ich schon vermutet hatte, schiebt man nun uns den Feueralarm in die Schuhe. Lachhaft! Uns wurden Strafarbeiten auf der Baustelle an der Christian Sheppard High auferlegt.

Entweder ist der Schulleiter äußerst naiv oder er steckt mit IHNEN unter einer Decke ...

Wenn der Okkult-Klub nicht seine Aufgaben erfüllen kann, wer soll dann die drohende Invasion der Vampire an unserer Schule aufhalten?!

Ich werde niemals aufhören nach der Wahrheit zu forschen! Ich glaube ich muss mich an die Fersen von RG heften (siehe Post → Vampire?). Er könnte der Schlüssel zu der Ganzen Sache sein ...

[zelfdezelfdezelfde]

BEST ALBUMS OP THE DECADE (LONGLIST)

 2010

LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

The National – High Violet

Vampire Weekend – Contra

Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Moss – Never Be Scared / Don’t Be A Hero

Lucky Fonz III – Hoe Je Honing Maakt

(7)

 2011

Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver

James Blake – James Blake

Destroyer – Kaputt

Alex Turner – Submarine

Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See

Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo

Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy

Radiohead – The King Of Limbs

Black Lips – Arabia Mountain

Bill Callahan - Apocalypse

Metronomy – The English Riviera

De Staat – Machinery

Balthazar – Applause

(13)

 2012

Mac DeMarco – 2

Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse

Fergus & Geronimo – Funky Was the State of Affairs

Death Grips – The Money Store

Jack White – Blunderbuss

Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

Father John Misty – Fear Fun

Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves

Balthazar – Rats

(9)

 2013

Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold

Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Arcade Fire – Reflektor

Ezra Furman – Day of the Dog

Lorde – Pure Heroine

Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

Arctic Monkeys – AM

Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II

FIDLAR – FIDLAR

Beach Fossils – Clash The Truth

Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

James Blake – Overgrown

Bill Callahan – Dream River

Foals – Holy Fire

The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads

Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

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 2014

Sun Kil Moon – Benji

Spoon – They Want My Soul

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Oddments

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – I’m In Your Mind Fuzz

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal

Parquet Courts – Content Nausea

The Growlers – Chinese Fountain

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness

The War on Drugs – Lost In The Dream

Klaus Johann Grobe – Im Sinne der Zeit

Adrianne Lenker – b-sides

Sharon Van Etten – Are We There

Mac DeMarco – Salad Days

Ty Segall – Manipulator

Ought – More Than Any Other Day

Kikagaku Moyo – Forest of Lost Children

Woods – With Light and with Love

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 2015

Balthazar – Thin Walls

Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style

Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down…

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon

Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi

Juan Wauters – Who Me?

Mac DeMarco – Another One

Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Viet Cong – Viet Cong

Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People

Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect

Slaves – Are You Satisfied?

Shopping – Why Choose

Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra

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 2016

David Bowie – Blackstar

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

Angel Olsen – MY WOMAN

Kikagaku Moyo – House in the Tall Grass

Bon Iver – 22, A Million

Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial

Parquet Courts – Human Performance

Savages – Adore Life

Whitney – Light Upon The Lake

Wilco – Schmilco

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity

Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth

Cass McCombs – Mangy Love

Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos

Metronomy – Summer 08

Big Thief – Masterpiece

Kevin Morby – Singing Saw

Childish Gambino – “Awaken, My Love!”

Preoccupations – Preoccupations

Lucky Fonz III – In Je Nakie

Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land

Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale

Eefje de Visser – Nachtlicht

William Tyler – Modern Country

Torii – Submerged

Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

The Avonden – Nachtschade

Cory Hanson – The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo

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 2017

Lorde – Melodrama

LCD Soundsystem – american dream

(Sandy) Alex G – Rocket

Father John Misty – Pure Comedy

Tim Darcy – Saturday Night

Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett – Lotta Sea Lice

Luwten – Luwten

The Homesick – Youth Hunt

Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog

Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory

The National – Sleep Well Beast

Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me

Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy

Perfume Genius – No Shape

tomemitsu – m_o_d_e_s

King Krule – The OOZ

Thundercat – Drunk

Big Thief – Capacity

Moses Sumney – Aromanticism

Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps

IDLES – Brutalism

Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator

Priests – Nothing Feels Natural

BROCKHAMPTON – SATURATION

Sleaford Mods – English Tapas

Alex Cameron – Forced Witness

Kevin Morby – City Music

Spinvis – Trein Vuur Dageraad

Jeff Tweedy – Together At Last

Soulwax – FROM DEEWEE

Florist – If Blue Could Be Happiness

Warhaus – Warhaus

Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory

ROSALÍA – Los Ángeles

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 2018

ROSALÍA – EL MAL QUERER

Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy

Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!

Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss

Soccer Mommy – Clean

Amber Arcades – European Heartbreak

Noname – Room 25

IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance.

Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed

KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS

Arctic Monkeys – Tranquillity Base Hotel + Casino

Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden

Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs

Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo

haru nemuri – harutosyura

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 2019

Ariana Grande – thank u, next

Big Thief – U.F.O.F.

Angel Olsen – All Mirrors

Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains

James Blake – Assume Form

Billie Eilish – WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell

Lizzo – Cuz I Love You

Aldous Harding - Designer

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#dossiers #giletsjaunes #giletjaune Le philosophe rit jaune – le discours – Lors d’un discours donné le 18 Novembre 2018 au dîner du CRIF, BHL y allait de son analyse sur le mouvement des Gilets Jaunes. Devant un parterre de notables parisiens, il rivalisait de pseudo-érudition afin de ridiculiser cette révolte populaire, donnant ainsi à l’oligarchie les munitions intellectuelles en attendant que leur bras armé ne les mutile à coup de grenades et de LBD. Si ce discours est important, donc, c’est qu’il ne fait pas que tenter de tourner les Gilets Jaunes en ridicule, mais qu’il énonce les armes que doit utiliser la sphère communicante pour dresser les moutons contre les vaches-à-lait, afin que le coq reste le maître incontesté de sa basse-cour. Diviser pour mieux régner, c’est une tactique qui a toujours porté ses fruits. Il vous reste le choix de rentrer dans leur jeu, ou de réclamer votre émancipation intellectuelle. Voici donc, revue et corrigée, mon analyse du discours de BHL donné le 18 Novembre au dîner du CRIF. Je ne prétends pas détenir la vérité absolue, mais posez-vous tout de même une question. Si quelqu’un comme moi, un blanc-bec qui n’est rien ni personne, peut démonter argument par argument ses sophismes pseudo-intellectuels, alors pourquoi aucun de ceux qui se définissent véritablement comme des penseurs et qui gravitent dans la sphère médiatique n’a jamais eu le courage de le faire ? En vérité, une personne a osé lui faire cet affront. Aude Lancelin lui a rappelé sur un plateau télé qu’il avait consacré un chapitre à Jean-Baptiste Botul sans se rendre compte que c’était un personnage fictif. On a remercié cette journaliste d’avoir fait correctement son boulot en la désignant persona non grata dans le monde des médias… N’étant rien ni personne, et ne souhaitant pas que cela change, je peux me permettre de combattre cet idiot sans crainte des conséquences. Je n’ai pas de voiture, et je ne vis pas en France. Pourquoi me sentir solidaire de ce mouvement, alors ? Parce que je suis comme vous. Etre Don Quichotte, c’est ma seule fierté. BHL est un vampire se nourrissant de notre ignorance pour distordre le réel selon les besoins de ses commanditaires. Le texte ci-dessous est ma gousse d’ail intellectuelle. Pour ceux qui ne l’ont pas lu, voici un lien vers le texte de ce fameux discours (préparez votre sac à vomi avant d’entamer la lecture) : http://bit.ly/2ERXqr8 *** En commençant son discours par feindre l’empathie, en appelant les élites présentes au dîner à ne pas ignorer cette colère, il semble prendre parti pour les manifestants. Héros sublime des “déclassés”, il se met le pékin moyen dans la poche. Rappelons-nous tous de même que, la veille, il raillait sur twitter l’échec de cette mobilisation. Lorsqu’il clame que c’est un mouvement d’ampleur historique, il ne caresse pas les Gilets Jaunes dans le sens du poil. Il adresse une mise en garde à la France d’en Haut. Il en vient ensuite à les réduire à “des accidentés de la mondialisation”. C’est pratique, en dénonçant la mondialisation, ce monstre terrible sans visage, cela permet aux élites présentes dans la salle d’éviter de faire leur mea culpa. D’autre part, c’est un argument fallacieux. On peut imputer la désindustrialisation à la mondialisation, et encore ça se discute. Mais les infirmières qui font 30 voire 40 bornes deux fois par jour pour aller bosser à l’hôpital le plus proche, ce n’est pas de la faute des bulgares, de chinois ou des bengladis… Ajoutons que lors du dernier Forum économique mondial de Davos, M. Macron a en substance, admis que la mondialisation avait été mal gérée. Bien entendu, plutôt que d’oser remettre en cause ce dogme, il a simplement argumenté qu’il fallait trouver les mots pour mieux faire passer la pilule. Eh bien, Manu, force est de reconnaitre que la pilule ne passe plus ! Une fois cette introduction pleine de faux bons sentiments terminée, il annonce qu’il en vient enfin à l’essentiel: hiérarchiser la colère. En glorifiant un aspect de ce sentiment, et en l’avilissant sous un autre angle, on comprend très bien en sous-titre dans quel camp il classe ces manifestants. La bête immonde revient, avec la REM, faites barrage à la haine ! Moutons, devenez des castors ! Parlons donc de l’”orgè”, cette fameuse colère d’Achille. Quelle métaphore tout à fait à propos. Rappelons d’abord le contexte de la Guerre de Troie. Simplifions au strict minimum : c’est le récit d’une nation européenne venant envahir le territoire de leur rivaux en Asie Mineure (Moyen-Orient). Achille fait partie de ces envahisseurs, et cette “sainte colère”, il la pique lorsque son ami Patrocle est tué par Hector, prince troyen. Oui, c’est bien ça : le mec défend sa maison, et Achille n’est pas content qu’il ose ne pas se laisser faire. La colère des gilets jaune, si c’est en effet l’”orgè” grecque (on y reviendra), alors ce n’est pas celle d’Achille. C’est celle d’Hector qui par trois fois traîne le corps sans vie de Patrocle autour des murailles de Troie pour venger tous ses compatriotes morts en tentant de repousser cette invasion inique. Applaudir cette métaphore de BHL, c’est donc applaudir le saccage de l’Afghanistan, de la Lybie, de l’Irak, de la Syrie… Excusez-moi, je ne peux m’y résoudre. Finissons-en une bonne fois pour toute avec cet argument de la colère d’Achille en continuant de dérouler l’histoire. Lorsque les grecs réclament aux troyens le corps supplicié de Patrocle pour le mettre en terre, Hector, auréolé de son triomphe, accepte de bonne grâce. Dans la scène qui s’ensuit, Homère décrit les rites funéraires somptueux réservés aux héros de l’époque, c’est un moment de littérature magnifique (cela dit en passant). Plus tard, Achille triomphe d’Hector, et dans sa rage, il ne s’arrête pas au meurtre. Il mutile le cadavre de la façon la plus horrible, et lorsque le roi Priam, lui-même, vient en personne dans le camp grec adresser une supplique larmoyante pour récupérer les restes méconnaissables de son fils. Achille, mû par son “orgè”, reste sourd. Le héros troyen finira de se décomposer sous le soleil, sa chair en pâture aux vautours… Est-ce vraiment ceci, “la colère qui élève”, M.Lévy ? Le Philosophe, avec cet argument, redonne vie à l’adage de Virgile. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes : méfiez-vous des puissants et de leur cadeaux. Après ce premier cheval de Troie dialectique, il continue avec un magnifique sophisme: La démocratie, ce n’est pas se ranger du coté du peuple. Premièrement, on ne demande à personne de se ranger de leur coté. S’ils manifestent, c’est parce qu’on les ignore. Ce mouvement aurait été désamorcé en un instant si “le Président de tous les français” avait su dire à ces sans-grades, depuis le début : “nous pouvons négocier”, au lieu de les traiter de gaulois réfractaires. Le vrai problème des appels à la démission de Macron, c’est la vacuité du camp d’en face. Si on le vire, par qui le remplacera-t-on ? Un autre de la même espèce, plein de beaux discours qui va au final faire la même chose, ou pire. Cet appel à la démission, est donc une idiotie, mais aussi l’expression d’un ras-le-bol. Pourquoi le Président ne veut-il pas faire un pas en direction de ses administrés ? Il continue à s’y refuser. “Venez me chercher” a-t-il fanfaronné fin juillet. Peut-on vraiment en vouloir aux Français de répondre par l’affirmative à cette invitation, lorsqu’ils marchent paisiblement vers l’Elysée dans l’après-midi du 17 Novembre ? Après avoir hiérarchisé la colère, il hiérarchise le peuple: Il y a le bon peuple, et le mauvais peuple. Le discours continue avec un nouvel effet de manche. Cet exemple pourrait simplement faire sourire. On évoquerait le sketch des Inconnus sur les chasseurs, et on passerait à la suite. Mais il argumente et explique, en gros, que le bon peuple se laisse faire en silence, et le mauvais peuple, conscient de l’indignité de sa condition, ose se rebeller. Quel toupet! Un peu comme ces femmes qui osent porter plainte après un viol… Non, t’as raison, une histoire biblique c’est beaucoup mieux. Après tout, c’est pas comme si la religion n’avait pas été utilisée à travers l’histoire pour justifier le pouvoir abusif des tyrans, et que pour cette raison, la Révolution Française avait introduit le principe de séparation de l’Eglise et de l’Etat… Mais revenons au paragraphe précédent. Il explique donc que: Les grecs font la distinction entre “deimos”, le peuple dans son sens noble, et “ochle”, la populace grouillante et infantile. L’héritage de Mai 68 véhiculé par les médias est justement l’infantilisation du peuple. Au cours du dernier demi-siècle, grâce aux émissions de divertissement de la télévision, à la publicité, à l’Education Nationale et aux programmes du Ministère de la Culture, on a infantilisé et abruti le peuple. Après cette grève générale et les accords de Grenelle, les nantis ont dit “plus jamais ça”. 1968, c’était leur “der des der”, en quelque sorte. Alors ils se sont acharnés à transformer le “deimos” en “ochle”. Les Gilets Jaunes, c’est l’”ochle” qui s’élève à nouveau de la fange pour atteindre le firmament du “deimos”. Préparez-vous, les médias vont s’acharner au cours des jours qui viennent à vous faire croire le contraire. Comment ? Il l’explique dans ses derniers paragraphes. En vous traitant comme des bêlants pusillanimes. On va vous faire peur en vous rappelant que le jaune est une couleur qui rappelle les fameuses “pires heures de notre histoire” (copyright trademark limited), on va vous faire croire que les manifestants sont des fachos et des beaufs, voire des casseurs… On a déjà commencé, en vérité. Libre à vous d’avaler leurs couleuvres. Ensuite, il a raison sur un point. Il faut prendre l’événement au sérieux, avant qu’il ne se radicalise et pourrisse. Se rend-il compte que son discours fait exactement l’inverse ? Qu’il diabolise une révolte justifiée ? Et puis, qu’entend-il par “prendre au sérieux” ? Donner voix au chapitre à François Ruffin qui propose de remplacer cette augmentation des taxes sur l’essence par un rétablissement de l’ISF ? (Voila une piste pour trouver un compromis, je ne prétend pas que ce soit la solution, mais c’est au moins une idée.) Ou bien, sous-entend-il qu’il faut tuer ce mouvement dans l’oeuf en abattant toute la violence de l’Etat sur ces pignoufs ? (C’est la direction vers laquelle les choses évoluent en ce moment…) [N.B. Ce texte a été écrit le 19 Novembre 2018, les 6 mois qui ont suivi semblent me donner raison…] Rebondissant donc sur ces questions, je finirai en commentant la dernière partie du discours, celle où il marque de magnifiques points Godwin en ressortant le spectre de l’extrême-droite du placard. Si l’orateur avait un soupçon d’objectivité, il emploierait d’autres exemples. Sans avoir besoin de chercher des épisodes obscurs datant de plusieurs siècles, les “Printemps Arabes” ont vu le peuple détrôner des régimes injustes. Il a loué ce mouvement en son temps, alors non, il ne pouvait s’en servir d’exemple. Pourtant, les similarités sont nombreuses : mouvement populaire né sur les réseaux sociaux; grogne qui se cristallise à la suite d’une hausse du prix des carburants (indirectement, le cours montant des hydrocarbures ayant fait grimper les prix du blé); gouvernements qui font la sourde oreille… Mais ce serait bien embêtant pour son propos de faire ce parallèle étant donné qu’il a fait partie des intellectuels qui ont appuyé ces mouvements dans les médias, et ont contribué à les rendre sympathiques dans l’opinion publique. De là à conclure qu’il y a chez BHL deux poids, deux mesures, il n’y a qu’un pas. Ou alors, si son cahier des charges le forçait vraiment à sortir des exemples du 19e siècle pour faire plus intello, alors il aurait dû évoquer les Révolutions de Mars et Juin 1848, ou mieux encore : la Commune de Paris, mouvement libertaire, d’extrême-gauche donc, qui a montré que si l’on laissait le Peuple (remarquez la majuscule) prendre ses responsabilités, il pouvait faire des choses merveilleuses ? Non, bien sur qu’il ne pouvait pas. Infantiliser les gens, c’est son métier, au “philosophe des beaux quartiers” (remarquez l’absence de majuscule). Ces mouvements allaient à l’encontre de l’idéologie qu’il représente, et puis cela forcerait le lecteur à se rappeler que ces soulèvements furent sauvagement réprimés dans le sang… C’est pourquoi, en clôture de son discours, il cite un passage de Drieu-La-Rochelle. Il livre là au parterre d’élites rassemblées, la clé: “Parvenez à faire de ces frondeurs des terroristes, des extrémistes, et alors vous pourrez légitimer l’oppression par les armes”. Il est de notre responsabilité de citoyens de rejeter cette propagande. Et il est de la responsabilité des Gilets Jaunes de rester droit dans leur bottes en restant non-violents malgré les provocations. Lors d'un discours donné le 18 Novembre 2018 au dîner du CRIF, BHL y allait de son analyse sur le mouvement des Gilets Jaunes. Devant un parterre de notables parisiens, il rivalisait de pseudo-érudition afin

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Kurzkritiken Hammer-Filme

Frankensteins Fluch (1957)  aka The Curse of Frankenstein 

Der Film, mit dem das "Hammer-Zeitalter" des Horrorfilms begann und auch der erste Horror-Film, in dem Peter Cushing und Christopher Lee gemeinsam auftraten. Overall ein gelungenes Reboot des Frankenstein-Franchises. 8/10 

Frankensteins Rache (1958)  aka The Revenge of Frankenstein 

Grandioses Sequel, einer meiner Lieblings-Hammer-Filme und mein absoluter Favourit unter den Frankenstein-Filmen. Ein (wie eigentlich immer) brillianter Peter Cushing, großartiges Set-Design, guter Score, tolle Atmosphäre. Da ignoriert man doch die kleinen Logiklöcher. 9/10 

Frankensteins Ungeheuer (1964)  aka The Evil of Frankenstein 

Inhaltlich eher schwacher Beitrag zum Frankenstein-Franchise. Eine Co-Produktion zwischen Hammer und Universal, deswegen erinnert das Design des Monsters an das klassische Boris Karloff Monster, leider erreicht die Qualität der Maske nicht einmal annähernd die Qualität des Jack Pierce Make-Ups aus den 30ern. Auch inhaltlich erinnert der Film stark an die alten Universal-Filme, viele Ideen und Klischees wurden übernommen und (nicht immer sinnvoll) in die Story integriert. Quasi ein Best-Of in Farbe. 6/10 

Frankenstein schuf ein Weib (1967)  aka Frankenstein Created Woman 

Die Rückkehr von Terence Fisher brachte uns einen optisch und atmosphärisch starken, inhaltlich aber eher mittelmäßigen Beitrag zur Frankenstein-Reihe. Insgesamt aber sehenswert. 7/10 

Frankenstein muß sterben! (1969)  aka Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 

Storytechnisch grundsätzlich interessanter Beitrag zur Frankenstein-Reihe. Was absolut irritiert, ist dass Dr. Frankenstein selbst hier als totaler Drecksack charakterisiert wird, der mordend und vergewaltigend durch die Gegend zieht. Verständlich, dass Peter Cushing selbst große Probleme mit dem Film hatte. 6/10

Frankensteins Höllenmonster (1974)  aka Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Letzter und leider auch schwächster Teil der Frankenstein-Saga. Zwar wurde der Gore-Faktor massiv nach oben geschraubt, dafür macht die Story wenig Sinn und einige der schauspielerischen Leistungen sind wirklich unterirdisch. 5/10 

Dracula (1958)  aka Horror of Dracula

DER große Klassiker der Hammer-Filme, auch wieder von/mit Fisher, Cushing und Lee. Hat zwar nur noch wenig mit dem Roman zu tun, ist insgesamt aber eine extrem runde Dracula-Verfilmung, vieleicht sogar die beste insgesamt (zusammen mit dem Lugosi-Dracula von '31). 9/10 

Dracula und seine Bräute (1960)  aka The Brides of Dracula 

Dracula-Film ohne Dracula, dafür wieder mit Peter Cushing als van Helsing. Die erste Stunde ist richtig gut, die letzten 30 Minuten leider voll von Plotlöchern und Ungereimtheiten. Schade, hätte das Potential zu einem der besten Hammer-Filme gehabt. 7/10 

Blut für Dracula (1966)  aka Dracula: Prince of Darkness 

Eher schwaches Sequel, das zu lange braucht, bis es in Fahrt kommt und ein schwaches Ende bietet, mit einer der lächerlichsten Methoden, einen Vampir zu töten. Father Sandor und Ludwig machen den Film dann unterm Strich noch sehenswert. 6/10 

Draculas Rückkehr (1968)  aka Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Schwacher Dracula-Film mit tonnenweise Continuity- und Logikfehlern. Zumindest sind die schaupielerischen Leistungen recht gut, aber der Rotfilter, der jedesmal über das Bild gelegt wird, wenn Dracula auf dem Bildschirm erscheint, ist massiv nervtötend. 5/10

Wie schmeckt das Blut von Dracula? (1970)  aka Taste the Blood of Dracula

Grundsätzlich sehr guter Beitrag zum Dracula-Franchise, der erste Akt ist einer der stärksten der Serie, die letzten fünf Minuten sind allerdings der totale Mist. Falls den Film jemand gesehen hat, erklärt mir doch bitte wie und warum Dracula am Ende besiegt wird, ich raffe es einfach nicht. 6/10 

Dracula - Nächte des Entsetzens (1970)  aka Scars of Dracula

Man kann, glaube ich, als Faustregel festhalten, je höher der Gore-Pegel und je tiefer die Ausschnitte desto lächerlicher und dämlicher die Story. Man kann dem Ganzen aber einen gewissen Unterhaltungswert nicht absprechen, auch wenn die ganze Sache eher unfreiwillig komisch ist. Und die Gummifledermaus schießt den Vogel endgültig ab. 6/10 

Dracula jagt Mini-Mädchen (1972)  aka Dracula A.D. 1972

Swinging-Satanisten-Hippies reanimieren Dracula im Jahr 1972. Mega nervige Charaktere, mega nerviger 70s-Dudel-Score und mega ideenlose und hahnebüchende Story (mittlerweile kann man Vampire einfach unter der Dusche töten, ist ja fließendes Wasser). Einzig positiver Punkt, Peter Cushing ist zurück und großartig wie immer. 4/10 

Dracula braucht frisches Blut (1973)  aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula

Direkte Fortsetzung zu A.D. 1972. Wieder ein Stück ernsthafter, auch wenn der Plot komplett lächerlich ist und so wirkt, als hätte man Dracula erst in letzter Sekunde in die Story hineingeschrieben. Die Performances von Lee und Cushing machen den Film aber dann doch recht anschaubar. 6/10

Schock (1955)  aka The Quatermass Xperiment aka The Creeping Unknown

Solides, größtenteils unterhaltsames und gut gespieltes Sci-Fi-B-Movie. Für Fans des Genres und der Epoche ein Must-See, trotz einiger kleiner Längen. 7/10 

Feinde aus dem Nichts (1957)  aka Quatermass 2 aka Enemy From Space

Absolute Perle der 50s Sci-Fi-B-Movies. "Borgt" sich zwar einige Motive von anderen Filmen (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing from another World, etc.), übertrifft diese aber teilweise in Sachen Unterhaltungswert. Kleines Meisterwerk des Genres. 9/10

Yeti, der Schneemensch (1957)  aka The Abominable Snowman

Früher Hammer-Film, dem man sein niedriges Budget zwar ansieht, der aber durchaus spannend und unterhaltsam ausgefallen ist. 8/10

Der Hund von Baskerville (1959)  aka The Hound of the Baskervilles 

Zu unrecht in Vergessenheit geratene Sherlock Holmes Verfilmung vom Hammer- Dreamteam Fisher, Cushing und Lee. Vor allem Cushing glänzt als Sherlock, eine erfrischende Abwechslung zu Hipster-Sherlock und Tony Stark-Sherlock. Muss jetzt doch mal die BBC-Serie aus den 60ern abchecken. 8/10 

Die Rache der Pharaonen (1959)  aka The Mummy

Dafür, dass ich die Mumie als Horror-Badguy immer schon etwas lahm fand, war der Film wirklich sehr unterhaltsam, imho die beste Verfilmung der Thematik, ganz knapp vor der Karloff-Mumie von '32. 7/10 

Der Fluch von Siniestro (1961)  aka The Curse of the Werewolf

Interessanter Anfang, endlos öder Mittelteil, nimmt aber in den letzten 15 Minuten dann doch noch etwas Fahrt auf. Insgesamt aber eher vernachlässigbarer Hammer-Film. 5/10 

Die Bande des Captain Clegg (1962)  aka Night Creatures

Extrem unterhaltsamer Grusel-Piraten-Mix, dessen großen Twist man zwar schon meilenweit entfernt kommen sehen kann, das tut der Atmosphäre und dem Entertainment-Faktor aber keinen Abbruch. 8/10 

Herrscherin der Wüste (1965)  aka She

Eine der aufwändigsten Hammer-Produktionen mit den Veteranen Lee und Cushing, welche wie immer eine solide Leistung abliefern. Selbiges kann man von den beiden Hauptdarstellern Andress und Richardson leider nicht sagen. Ihre Performances sind langweilig, wenig nachvollziehbar und uncharismatisch. Und natürlich ist die super-weiße Ursula Andress als afrikanische Königin ein schlechter Witz. 5/10

Rasputin - Der wahnsinnige Mönch (1966)  aka Rasputin: The Mad Monk 

Larger-than-life-Performance von Christopher Lee, die dafür sorgt, dass der sonst eher durchschnittliche Film positiv aus der Masse der Hammer-Produktionen heraussticht. 8/10

Nächte des Grauens (1966)  aka The Plague of the Zombies

Prä-Romero Zombie-Streifen mit klassischen Voodoo-Zombies. Gut gespielt, durchgehend spannend und unterhaltsam, definitiv oberes Drittel der Hammer-Filme. 8/10 

Das schwarze Reptil (1966)  aka The Reptile

Geschwister-Film zu Plague of the Zombies, soll heißen beide wurden back-to-back unter Verwendung derselben Kulissen und desselben Casts gedreht. Insgesamt solider Grusler mit einigen guten Perfomances (Michael Ripper) und einem leider etwas schwachem Ende. 7/10 

Das grüne Blut der Dämonen (1967)  aka Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth

Finaler teil der Quatermass-Trilogie. Diesmal leider nicht mit Brian Donlevy als Professor Quatermass, Andrew Keir spielt zwar auch solide, ihm fehlt allerdings die No-Bullshit-In-Your-Face-Attitüde. Insgesamt auch wieder ein extrem unterhaltsamer Sci-Fy-Horror-Film mit einem etwas enttäuschendem Ende. 8/10

Die Braut des Teufels (1968)  aka The Devil Rides Out

Früher Beitrag zum Sub-Genre des Teufelsanbeter-Films. Grandios gespielt und in Szene gesetzt mit einem Christopher Lee in Bestform. Über die ein oder andere Ungereimtheit im Plot kann man da schon einmal hinwegsehen. Zu Recht einer von Lee's Lieblingsfilmen in denen er mitgespielt hat. 9/10

Draculas Hexenjagd (1971)  aka Twins of Evil

Schwache Story, unglaublich unsympathische Charaktere, teilweise unterirdisch schlecht gespielt und eine schon sehr fragwürdige Message. Macht auch als Guilty-Pleasure-Trash-Filmchen keinen Spaß. 2/10

Das Grab der blutigen Mumie (1971)  aka Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

Duchweg unterhaltsamer Film, solide gespielt. Einige Defizite bei Pacing und Schnitt trüben das Gesamtergebnis etwas. 7/10 

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

Grundsätzlich eine interessante Idee, Jekyll and Hyde mit Jack the Ripper zu kreuzen. Unsympathische Charaktere, unausgegorene Story und stellenweise schmerzhaftes Over-Acting trüben das Vergnügen. 6/10

Die sieben goldenen Vampire (1974)  aka The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Co-Produktion zwischen Hammer und Shaw Brothers, biete das Beste aus beiden Welten: Peter Cushing als van Helsing und eine Menge überdurchschnittlich guter Martial Arts Fights. Das Ganze ist zwar reichlich cheesy und einige der Special-Effects,  vor allem die Make-Up-Effekte, wirken arg billig, der Spaß- und Unterhaltungsfaktor ist allerdings sehr hoch. Mit Abstand das Beste der Hammer-Spätwerke. 9/10

Captain Kronos - Vampirjäger (1974)  aka Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter

Obskurer und stellenweise reichlich bizzarer Vampirfilm, dem man sein geringes Budget leider in jeder Szene ansieht. Die Story mach wenig Sinn und der Schnitt ist wirr, auf der anderen Seite ist mir der Film durch seine Kauzigkeit dann doch wieder ganz sympathisch. 6/10

Die Braut des Satans (1976)  aka To the Devil a Daughter

Über weite Strecken arg wirrer Mischmasch aus Rosemary's Baby, Omen und Exorcist mit einem sehr blass bleibenden Helden und einer Nastassja Kinski, die außer abwechselnd belämmert kucken und kreischen nicht viel beisteuert. 5/10

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