#peter seligman

[trashpandaqc]

ripping myself off: a playlist of tracks I've released in multiple versions

lost gnome (Plain Music Compilation) vs This Is Going (Bonus Jump)

hdonkx49A/B (ET Mulch Madness) = loose remake of an hoyondonkx (Sinkhole Racer 2015 2010 2017)

colorful666 (nice mix) (Is Under Location Surfaces) vs colorful666 (fall folded)

agile nester pm & ws var q (Bonus Jump) vs Dicey & el pío (Jumps 19)

vy, fReet- (Jumps 19) vs sip from boat ytuality (Hyperchaos Vol 1)

Eels Repeating (Hack The Planet Vol 2) vs hollows (s:t ~ray)

b wave (-1) (s:t ~ray) vs Obwave (Dropup)

everything on Shape Variations vs everything on Out Of Shape

plus too many alternative live takes to mention on Additions Megabus, Warmup Clips 2012-2015, and various recorded live sets

[mybruisedankleneedsakiss]

about failure and success and the monstrous vacuum in between

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs // Whisper of the Heart 1995, dir. Yoshifumi Kondō // please, please, please let me get what I want by The Smiths // White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky // Whiplash 2014 dir. Damien Chazelle // Mieko Kawakami, All the lovers in the Nights // Frances Ha 2012 dir. Noah Baumbach // Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea // Steve Jobs 2015 dir. Danny Boyle // Shoko's Smile by Choi Eun-young // Shoko's Smile by Choi Eun-young // Shiva Baby 2020 dir. Emma Seligman // Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke // Evening Wind, Edward Hopper // Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother// Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir // Educated, Tara Westover

[sapphicides]

saw my list of black sapphic books to read this month, but don’t really read? i got you, here’s a list of black sapphic films (or films featuring black sapphics) to watch this black history month

documentaries:

stormé: lady of the jewel box (1991, dir. michelle parkerson)*

black/womyn: conversations with lesbians of african descent (2008, dir. tiona nekkia mcclodden)*

difficult love (2010, dir. zanele muholi & peter goldsmid)*

shakedown (2018, dir. leilah weinraub)*

drama:

the watermelon woman (1996, dir. cheryl dunye)*

pariah (2011, dir. dee rees)*

rafiki (2018, dir. wanuri kahiu)*

selah and the spades (2019, dir. tayarisha poe)*

valley of a thousand hills (2022, dir. bonie sithebe)*

tahara (2020, dir. olivia peace)

mars one (2022, dir. gabriel martins)

rom-com:

the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love (1995, dir. maria maggenti)

comedy:

d.e.b.s. (2004, dir. angela robinson)*

bottoms (2023, dir. emma seligman)

horror:

the mark of lilith (1986, dir. bruna fionda, polly gladwin, & isiling mack-nataf)

good manners (2017, dir. juliana rojas & marco dutra)

the perfection (2018, dir. richard shepherd)

jagged mind (2023, dir. kelley kali)*

bodies bodies bodies (2023, dir. halina reijn)

thriller:

set it off (1996, dir. f. gary gray)

the eiffel tower mystery (2016, dir. léa fazer)

how to blow up a pipeline (2022, dir. daniel goldhaber)

short films:

sunday’s child (2019, dir. maisie richardson-sellers)*

tender (2019, dir. felicia pride)*

ìfé (2020, dir. uyaiedu ipke-etim)*

the beginning & the middle (2021, dir. alexis g. zall)

heart shot (2022, dir. marielle woods)

grace (2024, dir. natalie jasmine harris)*

honorable mention: i saw the tv glow (2024, dir. jane schoenbrun), for what i felt was some undeniable implied sapphicism between the two main characters but was never actually explicitly canonized

additional info:

* indicates that the film listed was directed by a black woman/non-binary person

-> “why wasnt this film with black sapphics listed?” likely because the film doesn’t feature a black sapphic(s) as the main character. i tried to create a list of films that are least somewhat centric on black sapphics, no background characters or subplots

many of these films require trigger warnings, especially the dramas, horrors, and thrillers. please do your due diligence and search up warnings for yourself, as there are too many to list here. https://www.doesthedogdie.com is a good resource for this

feel free to add more to this post if you have more recs! happy black history month

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

BBC and Netflix release first-look at forthcoming drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103

“This was an act of war, and now we are to find out who we’re fighting.”

Six-part series shares the untold story of the Scottish and American investigators who sought to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The untold story of the Scots-US investigation into the bombing of a passenger flight over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, and the devastating effect it had on the community and the families who lost loved ones.

The BBC and Netflix have released first-look pictures of The Bombing of Pan Am 103, the forthcoming drama based on the true story of the bombing of a passenger flight over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 and the quest to bring the perpetrators to justice.

On 21 December 1988, flight Pan Am 103 was en route from Heathrow to JFK when a bomb exploded in its hold over Lockerbie, killing 270 people, including 43 British citizens and 190 Americans. It was the worst-ever terror attack on British soil and the first major act of terrorism against US citizens.

Made by World Productions, with lead writer Jonathan Lee, the six-part series follows the untold story of the Scots-US investigation into the attack and the devastating effect it had on the small town and the families who lost loved ones. From the initial exhaustive search for evidence on the ground in Scotland, via the US and Malta to the trial at Camp Zeist in 2000, the series leads up to the upcoming new trial in the US. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 also highlights the human impact on the investigators, the families and the Lockerbie community as it sought to rebuild and connect with bereaved families around the world.

The cast includes Connor Swindells (SAS Rogue Heroes, Sex Education), Patrick J. Adams (Suits, A League of Their Own), Merritt Wever (Unbelievable, Severance), Peter Mullan (Ozark, Payback), Tony Curran (Mary & George, Mayflies), Douglas Hodge (The Great, Catastrophe), Eddie Marsan (The Power, Ray Donovan), Nicholas Gleaves (After The Flood, The Rising) Lauren Lyle (Karen Pirie, Vigil), Andrew Rothney (The Undeclared War, Traces), Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey, Guilt), Cora Bissett (Annika, Shetland), Kevin McKidd (Greys Anatomy, Six Four), Parker Sawyers (Spy/Master, P-Valley), James Harkness (The Sixth Commandment, The Victim), Molly Geddes (Dinosaur, Where We Stop), Khalid Laith (Vigil, Cobra), and Amanda Drew (The Gold, Wolf).

Alongside acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Lee as lead writer, two episodes are written by Scottish screenwriter Gillian Roger Park. The 6 x 60 series is produced by World Productions (United, the story of the Munich air disaster, and Anne, the drama about Hillsborough mother and justice campaigner Anne Williams) in association with MGM Television (The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, Fargo) and Night Train Media (Rogue Agent, Catch me a Killer). The Bombing of Pan Am 103 was initially developed by MGM Television and Night Train Media.

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is coming soon to BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK, followed by Netflix globally. The producer is Julia Stannard (United, War and Peace, Anne) and Michael Keillor (Chimerica, Roadkill, Best Interests) is the director.

The project was developed by filmmaker Adam Morane-Griffiths whose research includes extensive interviews with Scottish police officers and representatives from United States investigative agencies, many of whom have never previously shared their stories. Producers and writers also spoke to many of the families and loved ones of the victims. Their stories revealed the impact the bombing had on their lives and the heroic activism that followed - resulting in lasting change to the way authorities approached security, safety and duty of care towards those involved in mass fatality incidents.

Filming took place on location in Scotland, Malta and Toronto.

The executive producers are Simon Heath and Roderick Seligman for World Productions; Steve Stark and Stacey Levin for Toluca Pictures, Adam Morane-Griffiths, Sara Curran, Herbert L. Kloiber for Night Train Media, Jonathan Lee, Michael Keillor; and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC. The co-executive producer is Joe Hill. Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin are leading for Netflix. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is produced by World Productions, an ITV Studios company, in association with MGM Television and Night Train Media.

Notes

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 was previously announced under the title of Lockerbie.

Watch #TheBombingOfPanAm103 on #iPlayer from 18 May #PanAm103 #Lockerbie

Posted 2nd May 2025

[ozu-teapot]

Films Watched in the Interim (August - October 2023)

Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000

Whip It | Drew Barrymore | 2009

Go West | Buster Keaton | 1925

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | John Francis Daley / Jonathan Goldstein | 2023

Turning Red | Domee Shi | 2022

Barbie | Greta Gerwig | 2023

Gothic | Ken Russell | 1986

The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century| Ken Russell | 2002

Bottoms | Emma Seligman | 2023

Pink Hill | Robert Flanagan | 2019

4 O'Clock | Robert Flanagan | 2021

Amelia and the Angel (Short) | Ken Russell | 1959

The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1934

The Black Cat | Harold Hoffman | 1966

The Owl Service | Peter Plummer | 1969

Seddok, l'erede di Satana (AKA Atom Age Vampire) | Anton Giulio Majano | 1960

Saint Maud | Rose Glass | 2019

The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | 2014

The Maze | William Cameron Menzies | 1953

Blood Bath | Jack Hill / Stephanie Rothman | 1966

Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face) | Georges Franju | 1960

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (AKA Girly) | Freddie Francis | 1970

The Velvet Vampire | Stephanie Rothman | 1971

Coco | Lee Unkrich / Adrian Molina | 2017

Blue Sunshine | Jeff Lieberman | 1977

A Candle for the Devil | Eugenio Martín | 1973

Lost Hearts | Lawrence Gordon Clark | 1973

Guest House Paradiso | Adrian Edmondson | 1999

Flesh and Fantasy | Julien Duvivier | 1943

The Ghost Train | Walter Forde | 1941

BOLD = Top Ten

Some notes: So at the end of July I was off film and off tumblr and not sure if I'd be back but I guess now I am, to some extent at least. The very start of this list is a bit innacurate. I probably watched a few more films than I've listed and maybe in a different order but from Gothic onwards it's correct - not that it really matters! I really must try to get back into having a themed Halloween watch list, which I haven't done since the japanese one in 2019, it's more fun. Am I doing Noirvember? I don't know.

[strawberrybyers]

for the past few years i’ve been keeping track of every film i watch for the first time ever throughout the year. in 2023, i watched the most amount i have documented so far! out of those 132 films—i wanted to share some of my favorites <3

1. aftersun (2022) dir. charlotte wells

2. the bling ring (2013) dir. sofia coppola

3. king richard (2021) dir. reinaldo marcus green

4. the whale (2022) dir. darren aronofsky

5. nine days (2020) dir. edson oda

6. air (2023) dir. ben affleck

7. top gun: maverick (2022) dir. joseph kosinski

8. glass onion (2022) dir. rian johnson

9. take care of maya (2023) dir. henry roosevelt

10. the king’s speech (2010) dir. tom hopper

11. girl in the picture (2022) dir. skye borgman

12. green room (2015) dir. jeremy saulnier

13. pulp fiction (1994) dir. quentin tarantino

14. red, white & royal blue (2023) dir. matthew lópez

15. boys don’t cry (1999) dir. kimberly pierce

16. scream vi (2023) dir. matt bettinelli-olpin & tyler gillett

17. the menu (2022) dir. mark mylod

18. the quiet girl (2022) dir. colm bairéad

19. barbie (2023) dir. greta gerwig

20. interstellar (2014) dir. christopher nolan

21. the super mario bros. movie (2023) dir. michael jelenic & aaron horvath

22. the craft (1996) dir. andrew fleming

23. bones and all (2022) dir. luca guadagnino

24. bullet train (2022) dir. david leitch

25. when harry met sally… (1989) dir. rob reiner

26. pearl (2022) dir. ti west

27. molly’s game (2017) dir. aaron sorkin

28. pain hustlers (2023) dir. david yates

29. elemental (2023) dir. peter sohn

30. nyad (2023) dir. elizabeth chai vasarhelyi & jimmy chin

31. the other zoey (2023) dir. sara zandieh

32. oppenheimer (2023) dir. christopher nolan

33. eloise at christmastime (2003) dir. kevin lima

34. leave the world behind (2023) dir. sam esmail

35. tinker bell (2008) dir. bradley raymond

36. prayers for bobby (2009) dir. russell mulcahy

37. little women (1994) dir. gillian armstrong

38. saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell

39. candy cane lane (2023) dir. reginald hudlin

40. the grinch (2018) dir. scott mosier & yarrow cheney

41. a season for miracles (1999) dir. michael pressman

42. bottoms (2023) dir. emma seligman

(these are ranked in the order that i watched them)

full list of films i watched in 2023 on my letterboxd

[chwedout]

✨films i watched for the first time in 2023 that i think everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime✨

favourites are listed in bold

20th Century Girl (2022, dir. Bang Woo-ri)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, dir. Edward Berger)

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

Audition (1999, dir. Takashi Miike)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Beau Is Afraid (2023, dir. Ari Aster)

Better Days (2019, dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Canola (2016, dir. Chang)

Columbus (2017, dir. Kogonada)

The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, dir. Wes Anderson)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988, dir. Isao Takahata)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The House (2022, dir. Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels)

House of Hummingbird (2018, dir. Kim Bora)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020, dir. Charlie Kaufman)

In Bruges (2008, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Isle of Dogs (2018, dir. Wes Anderson)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, dir. Martin Scorsese)

Memories of Murder (2003, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

Lady Vengeance (2005, dir. Park Chan-wook)

May December (2023, dir. Todd Haynes)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Next Sohee (2022, dir. July Jung)

No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Oldboy (2003, dir Park Chan-wook)

Past Lives (2023, dir. Celine Song)

Paprika (2006, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma)

Priscilla (2023, dir. Sofia Coppola)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, Joel Crawford)

The Quiet Girl (2022, dir. Colm Bairéad)

Ramen Shop (2018, dir. Eric Khoo)

Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)

Shiva Baby (2020, Emma Seligman)

Sing Street (2016, dir. John Carney)

Sound of Metal (2019, dir. Darius Marder)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, dir. Park Chan-wook)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, dir. Isao Takahata)

TÁR (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman)

The Truman Show (1998, dir. Peter Weir)

Weathering with You (2019, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

Women Talking (2022, dir. Sarah Polley)

2021 | 2022

[thereturnofsidsid03]

My Only Testaments

I have so many favourite movies and it's so hard to rank them so I will list them all* (all is a strong word) and the order is independent from my feelings.

Almost Famous, 2000, Cameron Crowe (now this one is my actual all time fave, but the rest are up for debate)

The Mummy, 1999, Stephen Sommers

The First Wives Club, 1996, Hugh Wilson

Scream, 1996, Wes Craven

The Goonies, 1985, Richard Donner

Lisa Frankenstein, 2024, Zelda Williams

Breakfast at Tiffanys, 1961, Blake Edwards

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986, John Hughes

The Mummy Returns, 2001, Stephen Sommers

Bottoms, 2023, Emma Seligman

Practical Magic, 1998, Griffin Dunne

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975, Jim Sharman

Little Women, 2019, Greta Gerwig

10 Things I Hate About You, 1999, Gil Junger

The Birdcage, 1996, Mike Nichols

Romancing the Stone, 1984, Robert Zemeckis

Batman & Robin, 1997, Joel Schumacher

Booksmart, 2019, Olivia Wilde

Mamma Mia!, 2008, Phyllida Lloyd

Stand By Me, 1986, Rob Reiner

Candy, 2006, Neil Armfield

Young Frankenstein, 1974, Mel Brooks

My Own Private Idaho, 1991, Gus Van Sant

Love Rosie, 2014, Christian Ditter

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012, Stephen Chbosky

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984, Steven Spielberg

Uptown Girls, 2003, Boaz Yakin

The Craft, 1996, Andrew Fleming

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Irvin Kershner

Empire Records, 1995, Allan Moyle

Funny Face, 1957, Stanley Donen

Dead Poets Society, 1989, Peter Weir

The Dark Knight, 2008, Christopher Nolan

Dazed and Confused, 1993, Richard Linklater

Muriel's Wedding, 1994, P.J Hogan

Before Sunrise, 1995, Richard Linklater

Sabrina, 1954, Billy Wilder

Knives Out, 2019, Rian Johnson

I'm sure I will remember more and the list will grow but thats that for now, thinking of categorising them instead too.

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

movies I watched in 2023

(taking a cue from @stenka-razin)

-January

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Love, Simon (2018, dir. Greg Berlant)

Gamer (2009, dir. Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

-February

A Touch of Sin (2013, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020, dir. William Olsson)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Charlie’s Angels (2000, dir. McG)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

-March

Ash is Purest White (2018, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Three (2016, dir. Johnnie To)

Nobody (2021, dir. Ilya Naishuller)

Charlie’s Angels (2019, dir. Elizabeth Banks)

The Wonderland (2019, dir. Keiichi Hara)

-April

Rebels of the Neon God (1992, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Tetris (2023, dir. Jon S. Baird)

There’s Something About Mary (1998, dir. Bobby and Peter Farrely)

The Whale (2022, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Throw Down (2004, dir. Johnnie To)

Tár (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, dir. Ryan Coogler)

Catch .44 (2011, dir. Aaron Harvey)

-May

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023, dir. Peyton Reed)

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)

-June

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Casino Royale (2006, dir. Martin Campbell)

Quantum of Solace (2008, dir. Marc Forster)

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)

Spectre 2015, dir. Sam Mendes)

No Time To Die (2021, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Octopussy (1983, dir. John Glen)

GoldenEye (1995, dir. Martin Campbell)

First Reformed (2017, dir. Paul Schrader)

-July

Zoolander (2001, dir. Ben Stiller)

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022, dir. Masato Jinbo)

Mainstream (2020, dir. Gia Coppola)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, dir. Tim Burton)

Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

You Only Live Twice (1967, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

-August

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019, dir. Lee Won-tae)

Leap Year (2010, dir. Anand Tucker)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

Palm Springs (2020, dir. Max Barbakow)

Days (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Kindergarten Cop (1990, dir. Ivan Reitman)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Babylon (2022, dir. Damien Chazelle)

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)

The Flash (2023, dir. Andy Muschietti)

-September

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, dir. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic)

The Little Mermaid (2023, dir. Rob Marshall)

Mulan (2020, dir. Niki Caro)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir. Werner Herzog)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir)

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, dir. Jack Sholder)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, dir. Chuck Russell)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, dir. Renny Harlin)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, dir. Rachel Talalay)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, dir. Wes Craven)

Renfield (2023, dir. Chris McKay)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

Shiva Baby (2020, dir. Emma Seligman)

-October

Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th - Part III (1982, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, dir. Joseph Zito)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, dir. Danny Steinmann)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, dir. John Carl Beuchler)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, dir. Rob Hedden)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, dir. Adam Marcus)

Jason X (2001, dir. James Isaac)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003, dir. Ronny Yu)

Friday the 13th (2009, dir. Marcus Nispel)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, dir. Samuel Bayer)

Easy A (2010, dir. Will Gluck)

Saw (2004, dir. James Wan)

Saw II (2005, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw III (2006, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw V (2008, dir. David Hackl)

Saw VI (2009, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Saw: The Final Chapter (2010, dir. Kevin Greutert)

A History of Violence (2005, dir. David Cronenberg)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Dracula 2000 (2000, dir. Patrick Lussier)

Mean Girls (2004, dir. Mark Waters)

Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)

-November

Murder on the Orient Express (2017, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Death on the Nile (2022, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

A Haunting in Venice (2023, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, dir. André Øvredal)

Samurai Reincarnation (1981, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Legally Blonde (2001, dir. Robert Luketic)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019, dir. Katt Shea)

The Last Duel (2021, dir. Ridley Scott)

Paint Your Wagon (1969, dir. Joshua Logan)

Thanksgiving (2023, dir. Eli Roth)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel)

Shogun’s Shadow (1989, dir. Yasuo Furuhata)

The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004, dir. Robert Luketic)

The Conjuring 2 (2016, dir. James Wan)

The Nun (2018, dir. Corin Hardy)

Le Samouraï (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

-December

The Nun II (2023, dir. Michael Chaves)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Annabelle (2014, dir. John R. Leonetti)

Gran Turismo (2023, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Jigsaw (2017, dir. The Spierig Brothers)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw X (2023, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, et. al.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, dir. Jeff Rowe)

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (2023, dir. James Mangold)

Air Doll (2009, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

The End of Summer (1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Air (2023, dir. Ben Affleck)

No Hard Feelings (2023, dir. Gene Stupnitsky)

Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Yakuza Wolf (1972, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007, dir. Takashi Miike)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023, dir. Steve Caple, Jr.)

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, dir. Tomek Baginski)

Dragonball Evolution (2009, dir. James Wong)

[learabeau]

Liste culturelle 2023

JANVIER

LIVRES

Le mur invisible de Marlen Haushofer

Histoire du Protestantisme de Jean Baudérot

FILMS

Godland de Hlynur Palmason

Dune de Denis Villeneuve

FEVRIER

SERIES

Tuca and Bertie de Lisa Hanawalt

Demon Slayer de Koyoharu Gotoge

FILMS

Le Retour des hirondelles de Li Ruijun

Wasabi de Gérald Krawczyk

All of Them Witches de Mona Panchal

LIVRES

Chaque geste compte. Manifeste contre l'impuissance publique de Dominique Bourg et Johann Chapoutot

La cabane magique. Panique à Pompéi de Mary Pope Osborne

Assassination classroom de Yusei Matsui

MARS

SERIES

Hollywood de Ryan Murphy

Supernatural de Eric Kripke

LIVRE

L’existentialisme est un humanisme de Jean-Paul Sartre

FILM

Fight Club de David Fincher

AVRIL

LIVRES

Peter Pan de Barrie

Informal beauty. The photograhs of Paul Nash de Simon Grant

Perceptions de Nathalie Man

La société des personnes vulnérables. Leçons féministes d’une crise. de Najat Vallaud-Belkacem et Sandra Laugier

Les hommes sont absents de Nathalie Man

FILMS

Bullet Train de David Leitch

Atonement de Joe Wright

Porco Rosso de Hayao Miyazaki

BlacKKKlansman de Spike Lee

Hokusai de Hajime Hashimoto

MAI

FILMS

It follows de David Robert Mitchell

Midsommar de Ari Aster

Little women de Greta Gerwig

Guardians of the Galaxy. Vol.3 de James Gunn

LIVRES

Le chat noir et autres histoires de Edgar Allan Poe

Déclaration des droits de la femme et du citoyen de Olympe de Gouges

JUIN

LIVRES

Émotions, souffrance, délivrance de Doctor Tuan Anh Tran

Capital: Vientiane de Guez, Pichelin and Troub's

Something to hide. Exploration des messages cachés du rock de Diego Gil et Johann Guyot

FILMS

Air de Ben Affleck

Eating our way to extinction de Kate Winslet

Susan, jour après jour de Stéphane Manchematin et Serge Steyer

Palm Springs de Marx Barbakow

Mike and Dave need wedding dates de Jake Szymanski

Clueless de Amy Heckerling

Spider-Man : Across the Spider-Verse de Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers et Justin K.Thompson

JUILLET

LIVRES

Bathory. La comtesse maudite d'Anne-Perrine Couet

Une rainette en automne (et plus…) de Linnea Sterte

FILMS

Prisoners de Denis Villeneuve

Tarzan de Kevin Lima et Chris Buck

Turning Red de Domee Shi

AOUT

FILMS

Mercenaire de Sacha Wolff

Behind every good man de Nikolai Ursin

The Fast and the Furious de Rob Cohen

Born behind stones de Carina Freire

Lands that Rises and Descends de Moona Pennanen

LIVRE

Des âmes et des saisons : Psycho-écologie de Boris Cyrulnik

SEPTEMBRE

FILMS

Body Samples de Astrid de la Chapelle

Galb'Echaouf d'Abdessamad El Montassir

La ciudad de los fotógrafos de Sebastian Moreno

Happiest Season de Clea DuVall

En communauté de Camille Octobre Laperche

Barbie de Greta Gerwig

Encanto de Byron Howard et Jared Bush

Mon amour, mon ami d'Adriano Valerio

Bottoms d'Emma Seligman

LIVRES

Lettres à un jeune poète de Rainer Maria Rilke

Ich de Martina Weinhart

Poèmes à la nuit de Rainer Maria Rilke

SERIE

Downtown Abbey d'après l'oeuvre de Julian Fellowes

OCTOBRE

FILMS

Downtown Abbey de Michael Engler

Downtown Abbey : Une nouvelle ère de Simon Curtis

Sur le rocher de Sandrine Rouxel

Dangereuse Alliance d'Andrew Fleming

Folie douce, folie dure de Marine Laclotte

The Craft : Les Nouvelles sorcières de Zoe Lister-Jones

Trois mille ans à t'attendre de George Miller

The Crow d'Alex Proyas

Le jardin des planches de Monique Barrière

On vous parle du Chili : Ce que disait Allende de Chris Marker et Miguel Littin

LIVRES

L’œil et l'Esprit de Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Vivian Maier en toute discrétion de Françoise Perron

Des histoires vraies de Sophie Calle

Henri Cartier-Bresson des collections Photo Poche et introduction écrite par Jean Clair

Palm Springs 1960 - Robert Doisneau par Jean-Paul Dubois

Vivian Maier Self-Portraits de John Maloof et Elizabeth Avedon

NOVEMBRE

FILMS

Crimson Peak de Guillermo del Toro

Astérix et Obélix. Mission Cléopâtre d'Alain Chabat

Le Garçon et le Héron d'Hayao Miyazaki

Hamama & Caluna d'Andreas Muggli

Journal de Sébastien Laudenbach

In Paris Parks de Shirley Clarke

LIVRES

Ces hommes qui m'expliquent la vie de Rebecca Solnit

Pulp Poiesis : Écriture(s) en suspens(ion) d'Alizée Pichot

Enfant de la nuit polaire de Julia Nikitina

DECEMBRE

LIVRES

Nouveaux poèmes suivi de Requiem par Rainer Maria Rilke

Pampilles de Florentine Rey

Notes sur la mélodie des choses et autres textes de Rainer Maria Rilke

FILMS

Willy's Wonderland de Kevin Lewis

Family Switch de Joseph McGinty Nichol

Skyscraper de Shirley Clarke

Le monde après nous de Sam Esmail

Sensitive Content de Narges Kalhor

Snow Job : the Media Hyteria of Aids de Barbara Hammer

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether de Tom Kalin

Autour d'eux, la nuit de Vassili Schémann

Blight de John Smith

Tér d'Istvan Szabo

Chicken Run : La Menace nuggets de Sam Fell

SERIE

Lupin de George Kay et François Uzan

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Pavlovian Response (WC/DC Fic)

AN - in honor of ao3 being down, I'm going to start cross posting some of my works in hopes that it appeases the itch I have while the server is off at war.

Dick was paralyzed. 

He shouldn’t have been. He knew how to handle the situation. You case the environment, picking out what can help and what can hinder. Next, he should analyze who is most likely to shoot and who is the ringleader. Dick was trained; he’d done this countless times in his Nightwing and Robin persona. And yet, here he was paralyzed with dread gripping his arms, his stomach, his chest, restraining him from making any movement.

It was supposed to be simple. The white collar crime unit was never supposed to see action, but here they were in the middle of a trade off. Of course it couldn’t be between two gangs either; the missed the information of the League of Assassins buying Nth metal from one of Luthor’s vaguely connected and extremely shady shell companies. 

The most ridiculous part in Dick’s opinion was that they were never even supposed to be close to Nth metal to begin with. It was a tip about foraged bonds that led them to this warehouse where Neal, Jones, Peter, and Diana were all tied up and about to be “disposed of.” 

Counting the small blessings, it was a miracle that Dick was able to keep his cover. If he had an opening, if he had the ability to actually move, he would have taken it. Anything, even blowing the Caffrey cover, would be worth keeping Nth metal from the bloody hands of the League of Assassins. Dick visibly trembled at the mere thought of what Ra’s Al-Ghul could be planning.

But here he was, stuck with no options to get any traction for any tactical maneuvers. If he hadn’t been with the rest of the white collar unit, Dick might have been able to defend himself when the men first started pouring out of the windows, but Caffrey wouldn’t have. Not truly understanding the gravity of the situation until well tied up, Dick hadn’t even considered blowing Caffrey for what they thought was an overzealous group of bond forgers. Boy, could they not have been more wrong.

“I don’t care if they are from the FBI. I don’t care if they were the president himself! Kill them off.” Lady Shiva’s shrill voice brought Dick’s attention back to the present. Both groups hadn’t wanted to do the actual deed of killing themselves. The League thought it below their status and Luthor’s men didn’t want the blood of agents on their hands.

Dick just hoped it would end soon. He had heard of Seligman’s dogs in the psychology study for helplessness. How once they reached a certain point of not being able to escape, they simply laid down and took the pain. When he had first heard the theory, he thought it impossible. Thought that there was always a way for someone to escape, to fight back, or at the very least something they could try. 

The dogs were right.

Between the group of 12 League assassins and Lady Shiva herself, Dick would have had a hard time fighting to begin with. Including the factors of no equipment and civilians, even Nightwing would have called for backup. Dick had already tried to get out of the knots, but they held strong at every attempt, growing tighter as he struggled. If there was one thing that the League was, it was proficient. And right now, Dick was choking, both physically and metaphorically, on their proficiency.

The angry voices picked up in volume again, arguing over his own death, but Dick couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the words themselves. Either way, this only ended up with him dead. He had no panic button and even if he did no one could have gotten there in time to break them out.

Diana bumped against his shoulder, sending him a look of concern. 

Of course, Dick had dropped the Caffrey mask. He was sure it looked unusual to the group, seeing him without the illusions and smokescreens he so often put up as Neal. His standard smile was gone, instead an analyzing and critical frown as he thought his way around the situation just one more time. 

His latest attempt at freedom proved futile. 

Peter glanced back and opened his mouth as though to communicate something, but Dick let his vision blur a little more, dropping Peter from his focus. The last thing he heard was Lady Shiva recommending they just call in a mercenary.

He shifted to try to take pressure off of his bad knee, igniting pain on his side. Dick was sure the blood loss was contributing to his lack of presence in the present. He had just barely gotten back out to patrolling the previous night, with a little help from Babs and Tim for the tracking data, and it had gone over as well as it does whenever a vigilante makes a reappearance on the scene after a break – pretty badly. 

He had more bruises and cuts than he had gotten in a long time from one patrol, but it had been worth it. Even while he hiked his way around town in the stuffy van with the team he had considered the slight pain worth the cost of flying again. As he sat on the ground debating his fate, Dick would have given up that one night to feel like he was at his prime and could have a fighting chance. Instead he slipped further down into the haze when footsteps drew closer and closer to the agents.

He felt a hand grab his chin, tilting his head up to look at the person, but his attention was attracted to a vaguely familiar colored blur in the back. He could hear angry voices, one of which sounded like Peter. He could see the face in front of him moving, making sounds that were lost on his buzzing ears. His eyes flickered to movement as a knife was raised up.

He felt a splash of warm fluid on his face and let his eyes fall closed.

Dick heard vague sounds. People were screaming as though they were both far away and right now to him. He felt a warmness spread along his hands where they were resting on the ground.

Between one breath and the next, the screams stopped. He knew he had to look up, but he couldn’t. Dick tried to suck in measured breaths, but they only got thready and quick. He didn’t know what was happening and he couldn’t figure it out.

A hand reached out and brushed against his face, smearing the drops. Dick couldn’t help but lean into the touch. The gloves were familiar and foreign at the same time. Touching him, but too far away to truly grasp. Something pistoned him up against a hard chestplate and sliced through his bonds, letting his arms fall limply to his side.

“You’re okay, little bird.”

The words reverberated through Dick’s chest and he couldn’t help but lean into the armor more.

A chuckle jostled him gently as the arms hiked him closer and tighter. Dick relaxed into the hold.

“Take your time. You’re safe now.”

Safe sounded good. He felt protected, enveloped in the armored grasp. Dick’s breathing slowly regulated itself out and his senses started filtering back in.

He smelled the sharp scent of blood, tasted the coppery liquid within his mouth. He could hear the silence and sense the tension all around, as though a livewire was about to be set off.

He could feel the steady heartbeat beneath his cheek, the slow and careful breaths that were exaggerated surely for his sake. Dick cracked his eyes open to see orange and black and buried himself in further.

Slade’s breath huffed against his face, “Are you back with me, little bird?”

Dick managed a nod, not wanting to fully leave the safe arms he was in. He managed to press in a little further, nestling into the mercenary.

“I think your unit wants to talk to you.” 

Oh shit. 

Dick wasn’t in Bludhaven, he wasn’t even in Gotham. Many things he could explain away to the white collar unit. He can handle guns? Sure, he just doesn’t like them. He knows too much information about a subject? Did a con regarding it once. Neal Caffrey knows self-defense? Took a class once to get close to a target.

Nothing was plausible as to why he was seeking shelter and protection from Deathstroke, a mercenary that had a red alert from multiple heads of multiple governments.

Dick allowed himself one more moment tucked safely against Slade before he pushed gently against the chest plate, bringing himself up onto his own legs. Slade’s hands hovered around his arms as he straightened to take his own weight, ready to catch him the second they faltered.

He took a few seconds to look around the room and see the desecration and death that Deathstroke had left behind before he turned to his old team.

Various looks of horror stared back at him. Diana even managed to look a tad bit queasy as well. In the end, it was Peter who broke the silence with a barely muttered, “W-What?”

Slade let out an amused huff and Dick could only imagine the smirk he was bearing with pride, which did nothing to lessen the glares shot his way. 

“Surprise?” Even with all the effort that Dick put into making it sound like Caffrey, the word came out weak and timid. Peter’s face scrunched up further and he could practically feel Slade laughing at his back.

Peter glanced around the room, eyes latching onto his service weapon and looked as though he was going to make a break for it. Dick tensed at the movement, causing Slade to tap his shoulder once in recognition before standing directly in Peter’s eyesight.

“Hello, Agent Burke,” His voice was low and gravelly, fully in the Deathstroke persona. “I wouldn’t make any movements. You’ve already disappointed me with your care of Neal, do not give me a reason to take it out against you.” 

While Dick couldn’t see the smirk, he could hear the amused tilt in Slade’s voice and moved to interfere before Peter could say or do anything Slade considered threatening. His leg stuttered underneath him, still tingling from his extended stay on the ground. An arm reached out to haul him back upwards and against a firm chest, disrupting the quickly approaching ground.

Diana hissed a breath inwards, daring to raise her voice at the mercenary, “Let him go, Deathstroke. Neal hasn’t done anything to you.”

Slade tilted his head, “Hasn’t he? I’m not sure you know what you’re talking about.”

Dick’s head thumped against Deathstroke’s armored chestplate as he refused to engage in the frustrating, headache inducing conversation. Moving one hand from its position on his shoulder, Slade ran a glove through Dick’s hair. 

A strangled sound came from where the agents were sitting, but Dick tuned them out and pushed upwards into the comforting hand. It was a well known action in his family, they considered it a pavlovian response: run your hands through Dick’s hair and get a much calmer and relaxed person. Dick would swear to everyone that it was a cure-all – headache? Injury? Emotional distress? It would fix it all.

He melted into the hand as he always did, once again feeling the amused chuckle more than hearing it.

“I believe that your C.I. needs some time off.” Slade reached downwards and efficiently sliced through the tracking anklet with barely a flash of metal. “I’m intending to give him one. I do not think you need me to explain what will occur if you attempt to follow?”

Peter gave a timid shake of his head in acknowledgment and Slade was off, picking up the exhausted and still slightly dissociating bird, carrying him outside the building. The car he already had waiting outside was ready to move and they were inside Slade’s New York safehouse even before surveillance showed FBI agents flooding the warehouse and finding Dick’s white collar unit.

Chapter Two

The next few hours were a blur of motion.

Dick could remember vague points: resting against a person, being half-carried into a car, then carried into an apartment, and finally resting on a coarse, unbroken-in couch.

He continued to let himself drift off into the haze where nothing could or had ever happened. If he tried hard enough, the safehouse blurred until its details were indistinguishable and he could imagine he was back at the Manor.

Hands, rough but gentle, grabbed his and curled them around a mug. The heat shocked some feeling back in, sharpened the world for a moment before it started to phase itself back out. Dick caught one eye staring at him, pinched in concern. Just as his eyes began to unfocus, the other hands came back, moving the mug up. He could hear words being said, but they were as though spoken in another language, completely lost on the rushing in his ears.

A hot, in all senses of the word, liquid scorched his lips, then tongue, then throat. Dick blinked a few times, fingers tightening around the handle while the other hands reached up to place the lip of the mug against his lips again.

A few sips later and Dick was crashing back down into his body.

Slade blinked, or winked, at him once, twice, and then pulled his hands off, carefully hovering if the mug were to drop itself.

They both looked at the other, measuring, for a moment. “Is this spiced hot chocolate?”

“Yes.” Slade was as dismissive as usual. “Are you back with me, kid?” If he thought about it for a moment, Slade’s tone was much too emotional for him to discern. He chose to let that thought drift away.

Dick nodded. 

“Good.” Slade stood and walked out of Dick’s line of sight. He thought for a second to track his movements, but a light twist of his head left Dick holding back a groan and closing his eyes. He could hear the clearly enunciated steps announcing Slade’s arrival back into the room regardless.

A ruthless hand gripped his chin while the other rested on his forehead and Dick almost leaned into the touch that he had been starved of while in the Caffrey alias, but one finger cruelly reached down and pulled his eyelid up, allowing his pupil to be assaulted with a penlight.

Dick sucked in a breath and the eyelid was let go with a pat on his head like he was a well behaving dog.

“A concussion. You really can never do something half-heartedly, can you, Little Bird?”

He gave a noncommittal noise in protest.

“You didn’t hit your head today, I checked.” There was a pause like Slade was measuring the merits of pushing his point. Dick inclined his head slightly, giving the older man nonverbal permission to push. Slade would have continued regardless, but at least the permission would give him the appearance of Dick being a willing patient. “I saw Nightwing make an appearance last night. It was the first time you went out in your night outfit for a while. Are there any other residual injuries I should know about, Little Bird?”

Although phrased as a question, it was spoken as a challenge. Now was the time for Dick to choose his crossroads: complying with Slade and his battery of assessments for physical wellness or dragging his feet until Slade forces him to sit for his battery of assessments for physical wellness.

“Probably,” Dick cleared his throat, “I got banged up a little bit while out last night.” Slade started moving around, placing the massive first aid kit on the table. “Nothing permanent, nothing too bad. Just a lot of scrapes and bruises.”

“Like the goose egg on your head and its concussion?” Dick took a second to spare a look of exasperation to the words Slade dripped in sarcasm.

“All in all, it wasn’t that bad.”

He got a grunt in response and both stayed in a comfortable silence as Slade went through all his necessary check ups.

By the time Slade was satisfied he wasn’t hiding anymore injuries, Dick was sure he was seconds away from passing out from exhaustion. The pain, which had been ebbing and flowing through a range of motion and strength tests, had reached an all high. He took the pills offered from a gun calloused hand and quickly downed them.

“I forgot you take those without water.” Slade’s amusement only led Dick to feel more pulled down to the depths of sleep. Evidently, he wasn’t too mad and that meant he could relax.

Dick flopped his head backwards, closing his eyes. He felt a hand gently pick up his head and adjust it so that it was leaning against Slade’s chest. He could feel the steady heartbeat and the measured breaths. The consistency allowed him to relax completely, letting go of the tension he was holding in his shoulders, his knees, and his too shallow breaths.

They stayed together for a moment, Dick appreciating the ability to finally be his clingy self again. Neal never would have been comfortable with long periods of touch, but, as it was something Dick considered a necessity, he was more than willing to melt into the older mercenary.

Right as the soft tendrils of sleep were pulling him down, Slade’s rumble broke him back into the surface of consciousness. “What happened?” There was a moment of silence. “You don’t choke like that, Dick. I only came because I was in the area. If some other mercenary had arrived–”

“I know.” Dick was well aware of how close he had gotten to death.

“You were completely dissociated. You weren’t quipping, you weren’t fighting. Our industry doesn’t allow mistakes like that.”

“I know, Slade. I was undercover, I just couldn’t think my way out. If I had left the agents, they would have died. I wasn’t at top performance and when they first showed up I couldn’t do anything to jeopardize the cover. We didn’t think it would be the League showing up. Our unit isn’t supposed to see action. It was just…It was just the perfect circumstances.”

Silence stretched for a few moments, Dick becoming tenser as every second passed. He could practically feel Slade thinking through his next words and his next actions. The silence was suffocating, giving Dick the time he never had before to fully spiral, leading all of his thoughts down a whirlpool of what could have happened and how he failed and how someone could have died because of his own–

“I can hear you thinking.” The words jostled Dick enough to bump Slade on the chest. He immediately started to pull away, his regulated breathing quickly falling to shallow huffs, but Slade reached out to gently tug him back against his chest. “Just breathe, Little Bird. Nothing happened this time. You need to be more careful, more observant, but you can deal with that after a bit of sleep. When was the last time you got a full night’s rest?”

“I don’t know,” Exhaustion was slowing his tongue down, the slow patterned breaths and ridiculously low heart rate beating from Slade into his own body, pulling the after effects of adrenaline well out of his system.

A huff of disappointment almost caused him to open his eyes, but a hand started threading through his hair again and he surrendered to the comfort. “Do you want to stay at my safehouse or go back to yours?”

Dick appreciated the choice. It was obvious Slade wasn’t going to leave him alone, but at least there was a return of some power, however meager it might be. 

“Mine.” It was fortunate Slade had sensitive hearing, otherwise the word would have been lost, but the grunt in acknowledgement and rustling around proved he had been loud enough. To go to his house was an obvious choice. The last Peter and the team had seen him, he was functionally unconscious and carried out by a mercenary. Peter was sure to be panicking, but at least would have the good enough sense to check his apartment before placing him on the wanted list. At least now he would be able to have the opportunity to communicate his safety with Peter. Everything else, including the surely blown cover, could be covered once his ribs didn’t ache, his bruises were a thing of the past, the fuzzy feelings of a dissociative episode were gone, and his concussion was on the mend. 

The soft noises Slade was producing as he gathered up the medical equipment and cleaned up the apartment lulled Dick further. He felt himself drifting off into the limbo space between sleep and awakeness. 

He was gently awoken when the sudden change in elevation became apparent. As he thrashed for a moment, Slade tightened his grip. “You’re safe, Little Bird. We’re going to your house. Go back to resting.”

If he was a little more aware, Dick was sure he would be a little embarrassed at pressing into a mercenary, but he wasn’t. The lack of human contact that had been catching up to him was blissfully at peace once again and he couldn’t complain. Dick let the tendrils of sleep that had been torn off slowly reclaim his senses, falling asleep in the surety of his safety.

Chapter Three

Peter needed to knock on the door. He had already traveled all the way to the apartment, he just needed to work up the energy to bring his hand up. One gentle tap, maybe two. Then he did his rightful duty as a supervisory agent and he could go back to avoiding this whole mess. 

Sure, Peter liked Neal. He thought he was, for the most part, a good guy. He might have had his own quirks and might have been a criminal but he was nice. He cared for the people around him and made everyone’s day better at the office. Peter couldn’t possibly leave him with a mercenary without putting the barebones of a search in, no matter what the higher ups said that they were able to authorize. Everyone was simply scared of Deathstroke to take any action. Peter would be lying if he said he wasn’t petrified as well.

The chances of Neal even being in his apartment after the kidnapping were slim to none.Peter was just hoping that they knew each other and Deathstroke wouldn’t have killed his CI. If this was the way that Neal got discharged and released-- being carried off in the arms of a mercenary-- it could have been worse. 

After the length of discussions and interviews and reports, Peter had finally been released from the office. He could lie and say that Neal’s apartment was on his way home, but realistically it was just that he needed to put his mind at rest. While at the office, he couldn’t help but stare at the cleanly cut off ankle monitor. Deathstroke had the skills to do whatever he wanted to Neal. His Neal. It was his duty as his commanding agent to keep him safe and Peter failed. 

He finally raised his hand and knocked on the door. There were a few seconds of silence where Peter debated just turning and running, pretending that this never happened and breaking the terrible news to El sooner rather than later. She would be upset that he didn’t call her to tell her what happened, but at least then she would actually know.

The lock clicking startled a jolt out of Peter. He leaned forward in excitement, fear, hope, pain.

The door swung open to show a massive man. One piercing blue eye looked Peter up and down, his eyebrow arcing. “What do you want?”

His voice was rough and hardened, immediately sending a tremor down Peter’s spine.

The man’s lips curled upwards, his eye following the movement with hardly restrained glee.

“Um,” Peter had lost all degree of verbal proficiency. “Um, is Neal – is Neal home?” His smirk widened at the trembling in Peter’s voice.

“Tell me.” He leaned in closer to Peter, dropping the smirk for a dangerous glint, causing him to take a reflexive step backwards, “Why should I tell you? Hmm? Why should I not just k–”

“Slade!” 

The voice calling from deep inside the apartment was familiar in the best way. The man, Slade, abruptly straightened away from Peter.

“Are you sure you want to let him in?” His voice was strong and commanding, but at no louder volume than before. “I don’t think someone like-”

“Yes.” Neal sounded exasperated, but largely alright.

Slade stepped aside and opened the door. He didn’t stop looming, but gave Peter the space to walk inside Neal’s apartment. He did so cautiously, trying to keep at least one eye on the strange man, but quickly lost all self control when he saw Neal on the couch.

He hurried over, only stopping a few feet away when a warning tone came from behind him.

Neal shot a glance at the silver-haired menace as he walked past Peter to lounge confidently in a chair, keeping Peter and Neal both within eyesight and a quick grasping distance. Everything about his presence put Peter on edge, but the important thing was that Neal was alive.

“Neal, are you alright? We were all so worried after that mercenary took you away.” The spat out word resulted with another flick of a smirk. 

Peter was really starting to get unnerved by the guy.

“I’m alright, Peter. Thanks for checking up on me.” Neal was reassuring, but he let the silence hold, clearly not giving up much more information. Peter decided to push a little more.

“How did you know him? You seemed like you knew him. You relaxed with him around.” Neal looked more and more sheepish as Peter kept on talking. “He’s dangerous, Neal. Very dangerous. Please tell me that you know that. Or at least now that you know it, you’ll stay away. Deathstroke is a contract killer. It makes me, and the rest of the team, worried for your safety and life.”

While he watched Neal for the most part, as each statement came out he could see Slade lounging with a growing air of superiority, of power. Peter was practically choking on it.

“Peter…” Neal sounded more hesitant than Peter had ever heard him before, trailing off before his statement was finished with eyes pinched together.

“No.” The man interrupted again, this time amusement lacing through his tone, “The agent has a point, Neal. Fraternizing with a deadly mercenary is dangerous business. Didn’t your father warn you against playing with dangerous things?” 

Neal shot another glare to Slade. “Thank you for caring, Peter. But I am truly alright. Slade is keeping an eye on me and my injuries–”

Peter’s mind went blank. He couldn’t remember Neal getting stabbed or punched or shot but the whole afternoon was chaotic. He couldn’t believe he would miss something so important.

“How badly were you injured? I didn’t see you get hit? Neal, you need to go to the hospital. I don’t care who that man is, you need proper care.” Peter’s words were spilling out, frantic, only cut off when a growling like sound emerged from Slade.

“So now you care?” A playful but dangerous tilt was present. “You didn’t protect Neal while he was actively captured, but now you care? You are lucky I am allowing you to even be in the apartment right now. You should thank Neal for his kindness. If it were up to me, you would never see him again. You are supposed to be the leader, the man in charge, and you left your agents in danger. I am well qualified to look after Neal. Much more so than you.”

The impassioned and clinical words struck a nerve. They were a threat and a promise at the same time. Peter was sure that Neal was safe in Slade’s presence, but there was a distinct level of unsurety of whether Peter should leave Neal with him. The man clearly had some issues. 

Peter took a glance at Neal and, seeing his conflicted look, decided to stand up against the old man. “I don’t know who you think you are, but I am a federal agent. Neal is under my protection. In fact, I believe that you should leave right now. The tension that you are creating with your posturing is no doubt bad for Neal’s recovery. Your word that you are qualified does not mean anything to me. Neal went through a terrible ordeal, including being kidnapped by a contract killer. He needs to have proper medical attention, not your word.”

Slade had only gotten more and more amused as Peter talked, which only angered Peter more. He was a well respected federal agent. This man needed to learn his place and let him get Neal the help that he needed. Unless he was able to pull out a license for medical practice, Peter was taking Neal to the hospital.

His eye never left Peter as he spoke to Neal, “He’s got a bit of fire, doesn’t he, little bird?”

“Yeah, when provoked.” The words were harsh and pointed, Peter just couldn’t figure out what the dynamic between the two men was. It was definitely unique to say the least. 

Slade let out a responding hum and stood up to his full height, towering over Peter. It took all he could not to curve inwards a little. By the uptick of Slade’s lips, he guessed the aborted movement was noticed. 

He stepped his way up into Peter’s personal space. “If you think you can take better care of the bird, go ahead.” The words were deep and quiet. Peter was sure he was the only one who could hear them, but Neal let out an exasperated groan that could only be in response.

Slade crossed the room in four powerful, long, strides. He drew Peter’s attention as he walked. “I must warn you,” his voice carried across the room as he messed with a covered mass on the table, “I am very protective of what I consider to be mine – in one fashion or another. That boy that you see in front of you, the boy that you let get injured tonight, is something I consider as mine. A part of my family. You see, you would have had better luck had you run into the boy’s father, or even his brothers, but,” The tarp was pulled away, Peter could barely make out another mass colored orange and black as it was lifted enunciating his words.

“I don’t give second chances.”

Slade turned around, eye intently focused on Peter. His first thought was to retort that threatening a federal agent was an arrestable crime. His second was that they would never find his body.

Slade was holding the Deathstroke armor chestplate up, clearly drinking in every look of terror as it passed across Peter’s face. The puzzle pieces clicked together. The reason why he felt confident enough that Neal’s injuries were taken care of, how he knew exactly what had gone on, why he was so critical of Peter. Why Neal seemed so much more relaxed than he had been in the years that Peter had seen him.

He gulped down a breath of air, jolting when Neal’s admonishing tone rose from behind him. “Slade, you know better than to threaten federal agents. Peter was just trying his best.”

Slade gave a growling hum in response. “Either way, little bird, I think it’s time for Peter to get home. You need your next dosage and a lot of rest.”

Peter could hear the dismissal clear as day. A part of him wanted to stay with Neal, make sure that he was alright and he would stay alive, even in his absence. The more logical part was telling him to run out the door. Should Deathstroke choose to kill Neal there was close to nothing Peter could do to stop him. It was better just to try to appease the crazy murderer and bring it up to Neal later.

Yeah, that was what Peter was going to do. Bring it up later. When none of them were in the same room as a contract mercenary who had killed tens of people that day alone.

He rushed through a goodbye to Neal, hardly registering the words falling out of his mouth. The rest passed by in a blur, only really seeing life as clear again when he was well on the road and on his way back home. 

Peter found himself, yet again, longing for the days before he ever met Neal Caffrey. Then again, usually that statement regarded a robbery gone wrong or a skill he should never have known. Not one of the FBI’s most wanted and an ordered do-not-interact-memo-on mercenary in Neal’s living room. He couldn’t wait to retire.

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here's some wanted connections from the server that i'd LOVE to see !! including ; harley quinn for NOA WAYNE, former homoerotic co-dependent friendship for PHILOMENA WATSON, half / adopted sibling for PHILOMENA WATSON, ex girlfriend for ZACH DANE-SUMMERS, ex for LUNA MAXIMOFF, jean-paul beaubier for JEANNE MARIE BEAUBIER / AURORA SYSTEM, pepper potts for TONY STARK !!

[ NOA WAYNE ] is looking for a [ MOTHER / HARLEY QUINN ] connection, who are [ MOM AGED ] years old and look like [ UTP ]. [ RACHEL ] [ DOESN'T ] require to be contacted prior to applying but would love to be looped in. ( noa wayne, born eleanora quinn, nicknamed noa by mommy dearest, is the only child of harley & batman ! to preface; originally i did not have strong feelings attached to the idea of noa as harley's only child, full stop, though the more i've developed her, the more i do think that her backstory makes the most sense that way without making harley a Really Bad Person ! it IS my preference and i don't necessarily feel like i can dictate it, but i would like it to be a conversation if it was gonna change. anyways ! noa was raised for about eight years by harley, who loved her dearly & protected her fiercely. her decision to ultimately entrust her into batman's care was one made OF that love, with the working theory being that it was to put her out of the joker's reach when she ended up in arkham, again - i imagine she was just a wee bit confused on how that led to noa being raised by bruce wayne, but that's part of the 'funny' side of the story. she didn't take noa back after she got free, and i think that was her recognising how SAFE she was, now, and how many advantages she was getting thanks to bruce's wealth. she still checked in, sent offbeat & unsigned gifts, etc, but noa hasn't seen her mom since she was a little girl and that has really impacted her, abandonment issues wise. she loves her, from her memories of how she was raised in those few years. she doesn't forsake her the choices she made or anything, nor does she want to see her behind bars, unless that meant she got to spend time with her again. it's complicated. it always will be ! there are negative emotions buried VERY deep down [ noa's whole thing ] that need to come up and out but there are also so many bittersweet ones and so, so much love on both sides. i constantly think of the tik tok trend set to 'not a lot, just forever' [i could be a good mother-] when i think of them, with a dash of xxx. with bruce dead, now, i'm sensing a great opportunity for a family reunion ! )

[ PHILOMENA WATSON ] is looking for a [ HOMOEROTIC CO-DEPENDENT FRIENDSHIP (LIKELY FORMER) ] connection, who is [ 30-35 ] years old and looks like [ EMMA SELIGMAN, MEDALION RAHIMI, MELISSA BARRERA, ASLIHAN MALBORA, PAIGE HURD, AYO EDEBIRI, RACHEL SENNOTT / UTP ]. [ HAN ] [ DOES ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( xxx / i don’t smoke by mitski / cartwheel by lucy dacus / every woman needs a kinda toxic kinda homoerotic and super co-dependent. it’s very like … harry/peter, glinda/elphaba, earth!65 mj/gwen, clarisse/silena from pjo, allicent/rhaenyra (ive never seen hotd) this can be a current dynamic but could also be something from the past that ended in a ‘crash and burn’ kinda way. i think a past thing would be more painful or something more recent that ended, maybe it’s part of the reason why mina moved away from nyc and changed her career path in her 30s. )

[ PHILOMENA WATSON ] is looking for a [ HALF / ADOPTED SIBLING (CHILD OF GWEN STACY + HARRY OSBORN) ] connection, who is [ THIRTIES ] years old and looks like [ SIMONE ASHLEY, SOBHITA DHULIPALA, POOJA HEGDE, VARADA SETHU, SURAJ SHARMA / UTP ]. [ HAN ] [ DOES ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( age is flexible, i have mina at 32 at the moment but if you want ur char to be older we can do that, idm changing the ag (also depending on what your character is like it might make more sense for mina to be the younger one!). they can also be the same age / months apart (lol), it still works! i am wary about making them too old bc they were born when the coffee bean crew were in college and prior to gwens death. maybe 35 at the oldest. okay, on to the actual relationship -- this wc is for the child of gwen + harry but harry isn't up for being a father but esp after gwens death, so mj adopted the baby and raised them as her own (with peters help at one point, whenever they get together). i think two girls would be fun bc edwina and kate vibes but im also not fussy abt that !! they grew up as siblings (no "half sibling" bs, they're SIBLINGS). they got along semi-okay growing up, but i think they were typical siblings in that they DIDN'T get along and drove each other insane and always had to get back at each other for something petty. they have osborn dna okay. it's genetic. they hated each other for awhile !! but loved each other at the same time. like. nobody else can pick on their sibling, only them kinda vibe. beats each other up for wearing the other persons shirt.put thumb tacks in their bed for something stupid. also just "you're going out? wearing that? really?" n leaves the room without another word. idk. siblings who love and hate each other !! mj and peter are so exhausted and somewhere harry is laughing. < 3 xxx, xxx, xxx, xxx please note that per the osborn rper guidelines they won't have the osborn name and harry won't be like a father to them !! you can talk to the harry rper for more details but he basically wasn't and has never been fit to be a father. i have peter as a stand in stepfather. )

[ ZACH DANE-SUMMERS ] is looking for an [ EX GIRLFRIEND ] connection, who are [ MID TWENTIES, IDEALLY ZACH'S AGE ] years old and look like [ UTP ]. [ RACHEL ] [ DOES ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( xxx / this has been built entirely around the connell & marianne from normal people dynamic, and i am not that ashamed about it ! this is the romantic dynamic that most defines zach's current, mid twenties mindset; this character was their first Love & first experience of what 'serious' relationships really look like, though they were still young enough - late teens, heading towards 20 - that it was silly to get their hearts involved on both sides. EVERYONE knew they were a thing because they couldn't hide it for shit, but neither of them was willing to admit it for one reason or another. though i think both were at fault within the relationship i do also think that zach's issue specifically was trying to play it too cool and hurting them, in the process. they fell apart before they actually got a chance to see what a proper, named relationship would look like on them and will always be their biggest 'what if', though i would not blame them in the slightest for wanting nothing to do with them now ! )

[ LUNA MAXIMOFF ] is looking for a [ EX ] connection, who is [ MAYBE 29-34 ] years old and looks like [ UTP ]. [ HAN ] [ DOES ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( lunas first relationship !! it wasn’t even much of a relationship tbh. it was probably in college or post college, somewhere around there so the ages are flexible and don’t have to be super close in age to luna. basically it wasn’t super great on both sides but it did hurt when it was happening. luna was flaky, not focused on the relationship and more focused on continuing college, making her mom proud, her family, always being there for her friends (so they didn’t leave her), etc. but she was also closed off bc Mommy Trauma, among other things. so it just wasn’t a good time or a good idea. not to say that she didn’t care about them or wasn’t upset when they broke up! i think it even shaped her a little and made her more aware in future possible relationships. i also imagine they changed her perspective on her relationship w crystal (for the better) and helped her stop being such a people pleaser out of fear of being abandoned. got her to grow a spine n whatnot. i also think after awhile (years?) they managed to be friends and support each other. )

THE AURORA SYSTEM (JEANNE MARIE BEAUBIER/AURORA) is looking for a SIBLING (JEAN-PAUL BEAUBIER) connection, who is 40+ years old and looks like (UP TO PLAYER). DEW DOES require to be contacted prior to applying. ( the only reason im requiring the contact is my own muse is still pretty recent even in lore. other than that pls give me the speedster twins! )

[ TONY STARK ] is looking for a [ PEPPER POTTS / LOVE INTEREST ] connection, who is [ MID TO LATE 40s / EARLY 50s ] years old and looks like [ PREFERABLY POC / UTP ]. [ KRIS ] [ DOES ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( a very on and off again relationship. theyve been through so much together and she's definitely more of just a co-worker or a wife, lover but also his best friend. pepper grounds him, brings out the best of him. they argue a lot, bicker but at the end of the day somehow they find each other again. yes he's cheated before, yes they've had a divorce scare a few times but somehow he just finds himself coming back regardless )

[ BELLONA KYLE ] is looking for a [ ADOPTED MOTHER / SELINA KYLE ] connection, who is [ PARENT AGED ] years old and looks like [ ARGENTINIAN FC WHO'S 35+ / NO FC IS FINE! ]. [ HAN ] [ DOES NOT ] require to be contacted prior to applying. ( THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME !!!! bella is not someone who opens up, if at all, but selina got in. bella reminds selina of holly but also of herself, which is both good and bad. for some time bella was selina's sidekick and went by catgirl. < 333 selina basically found bella on the streets in gotham (after she had escaped her coma and arkham) and took her in. selina is VERY IMPORTANT to bella. she could care less about her biological parents atm. selina is her FAMILY and everything to her. )

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023 - September

"Baruch" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

A short interlude before another juggernaut of a chapter.

Creature Teacher by R.L. Stine (1998)

They really hold out on the monsters here in Series 2000, so this is a welcome entry.

Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 1 by R.L. Stine (1998)

An unnecessarily long red herring.

Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 2 by R.L. Stine (1998)

That's some way to prevent an extinction event.

I'm Your Evil Twin! by R.L. Stine (1998)

They always do the ol' switcharoo.

Revenge R Us by R.L. Stine (1998)

The Uncut Gems of Goosebumps.

Fright Camp by R.L. Stine (1998)

Fool me several dozen times, shame on us all.

Headless Halloween by R.L. Stine (1998)

Here we GOOOOO. A+ Goosebumps.

Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls by R.L. Stine (1998)

A bit weirder but still more welcome than kids being dicks and no actual spooky happenings.

Brain Juice by R.L. Stine (1998)

Just bizarre. Leaning a little too far into the weird science angle I've no interest for in these books.

The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek by R.L. Stine (1996)

Nope. These gamebooks aren't good for reading one after another, and the ones that more or less stay in place are especially meh.

Night in Werewolf Woods by R.L. Stine (1996)

Another meh entry in spite of the werewolves running around.

Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter by R.L. Stine (1996)

More weird science and generally not scary stuff, less and less interesting.

"Hotline Miami" by KC Green (2023)

The speedrun.

"I was told by my doctor that this'll completely compensate my human meat diet" by scribblingchimp (2023)

Gotta find an alternate.

"Carl's Date" dir. Bob Peterson (2023)

Good to see the gang again.

The Equalizer 3 dir. Antoine Fuqua (2023)

Didn't need to do all that.

Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman (2023)

The kids are alright.

Elemental dir. Peter Sohn (2023)

A personal story.

They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988)

That's a long fight.

Jawan dir. Atlee (2023)

The Robin Hood we need.

Christine dir. John Carpenter (1983)

Somehow, a car is scary.

The LEGO Movie dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2014)

Too familiar, but perhaps because it kicked off something we've seen a lot of since then.

Outlaw Johnny Black dir. Michael Jai White (2023)

A fun and shooty romp.

Satanic Hispanics dir. Alejandro Brugués , Mike Mendez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez, Demián Rugna (2023)

The anthology offers much.

Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg (2022)

Hell yes. If they made Predator movies that are just "a Predator fights someone at this point in history" I'd be all in.

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight dir. Ernest Dickerson (1995)

Definitely a feature-length version of an episode, but they pull it off.

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood dir. Gilbert Adler (1996)

Or do they? But this is still better than...

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual dir. Avi Nesher (2002)

A very boring movie like this.

Vault of Horror dir. Freddie Francis (1973)

Ooh that second story is tops.

Tales from the Crypt dir. Freddie Francis (1972)

This first movie was just a tad too straight-faced. Where's the camp?!

The Origin of Evil dir. Sébastien Marnier (2023)

A-n-x-i-e-t-y.

The Expendables 4 dir. Scott Waugh (2023)

I know they can't all come back every time, but the concept seems to be slipping away from them.

The Creator dir. Gareth Edwards (2023)

Hm. Striving toward something I might've liked but somehow doesn't land.

Tales from the Crypt - Season 7 (1996)

I've been annoyed with many people writing off season 7 as not worth watching. It's fine! There's even a few episodes really worth watching.

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Season 1 (1993)

Basically Goosebumps, so John Kassir recording wraparounds is what makes it special.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 2 (2023)

I like it, but 10 episodes is not enough. Bouncing from fun to deadly serious episodes too often makes it feel disjointed.

[gravestoneghost]

Updated artists4ceasefire list:

Aasif Mandvi

Abbi Jacobson

Adam Lambert

Aida Rodriguez

Ali Adler

Amandla Stenberg

Adam McKay

Afshan Azad

Ahamed Weinberg

Alan Cumming

Alfonso Cuarón

Alia Shawkat

Allison Russell

Alyssa Milano

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Seales

Amber Tamblyn

America Ferrera

Aminatou Sow

Andrew Ahn

Andrew Garfield

Anees

Ani DiFranco

Aminé

Anoushka Shankar

Aria Mia Loberti

ASAP Nast

Atsuko Okatsuka

Augustus Prew

Ayo Edebiri

Bassam Tariq

Bassem Youssef

Bella Hadid

Belly

Ben Affleck

Bobbi Salvör Menuez

Bonnie Wright

Boots Riley

Bradley Cooper

Brian Cox

Busy Phillipps

Carl Clemons-Hopkins

Caroline Polachek

Cat Power

Cate Blanchett

Channing Tatum

Charm La’Donna

Chase Sui Wonders

Cherien Dabis

Chicano Batman

Chioke Nassor

Clairo

Connie Britton

Cree Summer

Cynthia Nixon

Dan Bucatinsky

Darius Marder

Dave Merheje

David Cross

David Oyelowo

Deb Never

Dev Hynes

Dina Shihabi

Diplo

Dominic Cooper

Dominique Fishback

Dominique Thorne

Drake

Dua Lipa

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Eisa Davis

Elvira Lind

Elyanna

Emily Gordon

Emily Meade

Emma Seligman

Farah Bsaiso

Farida Khelfa

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Florence Pugh

Fredwreck

Gigi Hadid

Gracie Abrams

Hari Nef

Hasan Minhaj

Hend Sabry

Howard Rodman

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

James Schamus

Jay Shetty

Jai Courtney

Jas Lin

Jenna Ortega

Jenni Konner

Jennifer Lopez

Jenny Yang

Jeremy Allen White

Jeremy Strong

Jes Tom

Jessica Chastain

Jessie Buckley

Jesse Peretz

Jesse Williams

Joaquin Phoenix

Jodi Balfour

Joe Alwyn

Joel Edgerton

Joel Kim Booster

John Cusack

Jon Stewart

Jordan Peele

JP Saxe

Judah Friedlander

Judy Reyes

Kathryn Grody

Kathy Najimy

Kaytranada

Kehlani

Kendrick Sampson

K.Flay

Kimiko Glenn

Kimya Dawson

Kirsten Dunst

Kristen Stewart

Kumail Nanjiani

Lauren Jauregui

Lena Waithe

Leo Sheng

Lionel Boyce

Lola Kirke

Louisa Jacobson

Macklemore

Mandy Patinkin

Mahershala Ali

Manish Dayal

Marcia Cross

Margaret Cho

Mark Ruffalo

Mark Rylance

Martin Starr

Massari

May Calamawy

Maysoon Zayid

Maz Jobrani

Megan Boone

Melanie Martinez

Melissa Barrera

Michael Malarkey

Michael Moore

Michael Shannon

Michael Stipe

Michelle Wolf

Mickey Sumner

Miguel

Milla Jovovich

Mira Nair

Miranda July

Misha Collins

Mo Amer

Mona Chalabi

Morgan Spector

Mousa Kraish

Mustafa Ahmed

Naomi Scott

Natalia Cordova

Natalie Merchant

Nia DaCosta

Nicole Ansari Cox

Noah “40” Shebib

Omar Metwally

Omar Sy

Oscar Isaac

Padma Lakshmi

Patti Smith

Peter Gabriel

Poorna Jagannathan

Poppy Liu

Quinta Brunson

Rachel McAdams

Rachel Sennott

Ramy Youssef

Raveena Aurora

Richa Moorjani

River L. Ramirez

Riz Ahmed

Roberta Colindrez

Rooney Mara

Rosaline Elbay

Rosario Dawson

Rosie O’Donnell

Rowan Blanchard

Run The Jewels

Rupi Kaur

Ruth Negga

Ryan Coogler

Ryan Piers Williams

Saagar Shaikh

Sami Zayn

Sandra Oh

Sarah Bahbah

Sarah Jones

Sarah Snook

Sarah Sophie Flicker

Sarita Choudhury

Sasami Ashworth

Sean Miura

Sebastian Silva

Sepideh Moafi

Shailene Woodley

Shaka King

Shruti Ganguly

SimiHaze

Simon Helberg

Snoh Aalegra

Sophia Bush

Stephanie Suganami

Susan Sarandon

Sydney Lemmon

Tahar Rahim

Tanya Selvaratnam

Tarek Bishara

Tavi Gevinson

Taylour Paige

Tessa Thompson

Tommy Genesis

Tony Kushner

Travon Free

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Vic Mensa

Victoria Monét

Wallace Shawn

Wanda Sykes

Yara Shahidi

Yumi Sakugawa

Zoe Chao

Zoe Lister Jones

070 Shake

I know that there's the whole celebrities aren't our friends thing and I thought I outgrew being disappointed in them, I though I no longer expected anything from famous people

that being said, taika waititi being in support of genocide shocked me, since he was always talking about indigenous pride etc etc

please don't put obsessing over a celebrity and needing them to be good over your own morals

(for people that don't know what I'm talking about - some celebs signed a letter supporting what biden and Israel are doing, and some other celebs signed a letter in support of ceasefire. Taika's name wasn't in the second letter)

i will be deleting insensitive replies and comments, since this isn't just some discourse - it's about ethnic cleansing and active genocide

(edit: also for the 'but he's jewish' comments, being Jewish doesn't equal being in support of genocide. I have plenty of Jewish friends an they're all pro Palestine)

[rainingmusic]

Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

Movies I watched in 2024

January

1/4: Broker (2022, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

1/13: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997, dir. Roger Spottiswoode)

1/14: Sharper (2023, dir. Benjamin Caron)

1/17: Wildlife (2018, dir. Paul Dano)

1/18: Dalíland (2022, dir. Mary Harron)

1/23: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, dir. Martin Scorsese)

1/24: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021, dir. Michael Chaves)

February

2/8: The Prestige (2006, dir. Christopher Nolan)

2/9: The Marvels (2023, dir. Nia DaCosta)

2/10: The Bodyguard (1973, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

A View To A Kill (1985, dir. John Glen)

2/11: The World Is Not Enough (1999, dir. Michael Apted)

2/12: Die Another Day (2002, dir. Lee Tamahori)

The Holdovers (2023, dir. Alexander Payne)

2/13: Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

Licence To Kill (1989, dir. John Glen)

2/14: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

2/15: From Russia With Love (1963, dir. Terence Young)

2/17: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, dir. Peter Hunt)

Live And Let Die (1973, dir. Guy Hamilton)

2/18: Goldfinger (1964, dir. Guy Hamilton)

For Your Eyes Only (1981, dir. John Glen)

2/19: Moonraker (1979, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

2/21: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974, dir. Guy Hamilton)

2/22: Dr. No (1962, dir. Terence Young)

The Living Daylights (1987, dir. John Glen)

2/28: Thunderball (1965, dir. Terence Young)

2/29: Diamonds Are Forever (1971, Guy Hamilton)

March

3/04: Karate Killer (1973, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

3/07: Napoleon (2023, dir. Ridley Scott)

3/09: Never Say Never Again (1983, dir. Irvin Kershner)

3/10: Wonka (2023, dir. Paul King)

3/11: Poor Things (2023, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

3/12: American Fiction (2023, dir. Cord Jefferson)

3/14: Mean Girls (2024, dir. Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez, Jr.)

3/15: Bad City (2022, dir. Kensuke Sonomura)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024, dir. Rose Glass)

3/17: The Assassins (2012, dir. Zhao Linshan)

3/20: Clear and Present Danger (1994, dir. Phillip Noyce)

3/21: Weathering With You (2019, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

3/28: Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

3/29: The Iron Lady (2011, dir. Phyllida Lloyd)

3/31: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese)

April

4/1: Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese)

4/2: Andrei Rublev (1966, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

4/3: Blockers (2018, dir. Kay Cannon)

4/6: Anatomy of a Fall (2023, dir. Justine Triet)

4/8: The Zone of Interest (2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer)

4/16: Yakuza Wolf 2 (1972, dir. Buichi Saito)

4/17: Demonlover (2002, dir. Olivier Assayas)

4/24: Dragnet Girl (1933, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

4/27: Infernal Affairs (2002, dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak)

May

5/2: Aloners (2022, dir. Hong Sung-eun)

5/3: The Beekeeper (2024, dir. David Ayer)

5/4: Mallrats (1995, dir. Kevin Smith)

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

5/5: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, dir. Amy Heckerling)

5/8: Juno (2007, dir. Jason Reitman)

5/12: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/13: Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/14: The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/15: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/18: Thank You For Smoking (2005, dir. Jason Reitman)

5/19: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001, dir. Kevin Smith)

5/20: Elvis (2022, dir. Baz Luhrman)

Dune: Part One (2021, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5/21: Dune: Part Two (2024, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

American Pie (1999, dir. Chris and Paul Weitz)

5/23: The French Dispatch (2021, dir. Wes Anderson)

5/27: Dune (1984, dir. David Lynch)

5/28: Priscilla (2023, dir. Sofia Coppola)

5/29: Lost in Translation (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola)

June

6/2: Madame Web (2024, dir. S.J. Clarkson)

6/3: Lisa Frankenstein (2024, dir. Zelda Williams)

6/29: Monkey Man (2024, dir. Dev Patel)

July

7/11: Suzume (2022, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

7/18: Booksmart (2019, dir. Olivia Wilde)

Blockers (2018, dir. Kay Cannon)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

August

8/1: Challengers (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

8/3: Tampopo (1985, dir. Juzo Itami)

8/9: Late Spring (1949, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

8/12: Gone Girl (2014, dir. David Fincher)

8/17: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, dir. George Miller)

8/17; Perfect Days (2023, dir. Wim Wenders)

Kubi (2023, dir. Takeshi Kitano)

8/18: The Fountain (2006, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

September

9/1: Kinds of Kindness (2024, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

9/2: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, dir. Wes Anderson)

9/14: Civil War (2024, dir. Alex Garland)

9/21:  I Saw The TV Glow (2024, dor. Jane Schoenbrun)

9/29: High and Low (1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

October:

10/5: Street Fighter (1994, dir. Steven E. de Souza)

10/9: Mortal Kombat (1995, dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)

10/11: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, dir. James Cameron)

1013: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997, dir. John R. Leonetti)

10/15: Wayne’s World (1992, dir. Penelope Spheeris)

10/26: Chungking Express (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai)

10/31: Scream (1996, dir. Wes Craven)

November:

11/8: Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

11/12: Napoleon (2023, dir. Ridley Scott) (Director’s Cut)

11/14: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, dir. Joel Coen)

11/16: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024, dir. Shawn Levy)

The Heroic Trio (1993, dir. Johnnie To)

11/21: La Piscine (1969, dir. Jacques Deray) 

11/27: The Hill (2023, dir. Jeff Celentano)

11/28: Donnie Darko (2001, dir. Richard Kelly)

Alien: Romulus (2024, dir. Fede Alvarez)

December:

12/2: Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

12/6: Tokyo Twilight (1957, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

12/21: Home Alone (1990, dir. Chris Columbus)

12/25: Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

12/28: Joker: Folie á Deux (2024, dir Todd Phillips)

12/31: Look Back (2024, dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama)