#titanic 666

[jamiebamberdaily]

Happy New Year from JamieBamberDaily!

As a new year approaches, it’s time for our annual review of Jamie and his year!

The early months were quiet and it wasn’t until March that the first thing came in the form of a brilliant interview with Mark & Me Podcast. Earlier in the month, both Jamie and Kerry joined Kerry's former Bad Girls co-star Vicky Alcock at her acting class. According to a post over Christmas, "Jamie came to join us at Acting Up having written a fantastic screenplay 🤫 He shared his work with the actors- we did a full tableread then improvised some of the scenes over the month. Kerry Norton and Jamie then came back to watch what the actors had created. They were extremely impressed by their creativity, focus and understanding. Both Jamie and Kerry gave them advice, experience and understanding of what is required within the industry."

April was a busier month for Jamie. He celebrated his 49th birthday which we once again marked with a birthday video. The following couple of days saw Jamie travel over to Cannes to appear at the 5th Canneseries Festival with Lucie Lucas and Tamara Marthe to discuss his upcoming role in Cannes Confidential. Then April 21st saw the release of Titanic 666 on Tubi TV, the film was released exactly 110 years to the day of the original sinking of the Titanic.

May was also a chaotic month for Jamie and his work. May 2nd saw the release of the first episode of two of Jamie’s projects which were filmed last year; Signora Volpe and DI Ray. DI Ray continued for the following three days on ITV and Signora Volpe episodes released the next two Mondays. Also on the same day, Jamie started the first day filming of Cannes Confidential.

June was less busy, with only the announcement of his involvement on the judging panel of the Faber’s inaugural Imagined Futures Prize.

Filming on Cannes Confidential finished in late July after a incredible 3 month shoot. While DI Ray released on DVD in the UK.

A quiet few months followed until late October when horror film, The Lair released in the US after a few rounds at a few film festivals including FrightFest in London.

Finally, December saw the announcement of not one, but two Jamie roles for the new year. BBC’s spin-off to Death In Paradise, Beyond Paradise which he filmed around September-November in Cornwall, and Who Is Erin Carter (also known as Palomino) which was filmed in Barcelona, Spain in mid-to-late August. Also in that month Jamie returned to the stage for one night only in Uncle Glen’s Menagerie which took place at the Arcola Theatre in London, the event was in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

We are very much looking forward to Jamie’s projects to come in 2023, and with three announced already to come, we’re sure it’s going to be another busy year for him!

So to end the year, we would like to wish you all a very happy new year and a positive 2023!

Jemma and Sophie. xx

[stabby-apologist]

Titanic II and Why I Hate It

Today, I watched Titanic 2; and I could probably forgive the crapshoot that is this movie if it had outdone everything from the original.

But—

◇ SPOILERS BELOW◇

The CGI was atrocious, compared to the first movie where the water and the ship and the atmosphere felt real. In the sequel, I'm very aware that I'm watching a movie.

Some of the scenes feel copy and pasted—the ship angled with the passengers sliding down the side and falling from the heights, shot by shot; how the main character and the romantic interest almost imitate the conversation between Jack and Rose on the floating door—

Here's one for yall: I could understand the tsunami, and honestly they should have just kept that and left it at that. But having the tsunami propel an iceberg to destroy Titanic II is a little too on the nose for me and it's kind of lazy writing.

The romance in Titanic was developed, born out of a man trying to save a woman from jumping, and then established throughout the journey before the ship hits the iceberg. We actually care about the man, the woman, the people on the ship. We get to know them. In the sequel, I actually don't like anyone; and the romance angle is more or less mentioned (the woman didn't call him back after six months). So I really don't care who lives or dies.

The fact that Titanic 2 is "prepared to take any icebergs" and can go really, really fast is nullified by the fact an iceberg is propelled into the ship and when they're supposed to be flee from an incoming tsunami, they sit still. Seriously, watch that part because the Captain is like "turn them on!" And I'm just wondering why yall decided to just not move.

The scenes in the dark are too dark. I can't see shit. It's like the final season of Game of Thrones, you know the one. Like what am I seeing?

So. Idk. The fact that a motherfucker irl wanted to actually build an actual ship replicated and named Titanic II is stupid as hell.

I mean, look at what had to be said:

[yinnyguardian]

Fantastic Night Lol

I couldn't sleep tonight. So like I always do when I can't sleep, I went to the internet.... And OH BOY I was not disappointed XD First I wanna cover Winnie The Pooh. It recently hit the public domain. Which means it's fair game.... And when I say the horror community took it and RAN I mean it! Look up Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey on YouTube. It's a new 'slasher' movie coming out! And it looks awful but in a really hilarious way! It reminds me of the classic slasher movies in quality... And by this I mean looks, but not so much in story... I'm not gonna judge it too quickly, but I am excited! Now onto the other thing the Internet has brought to my attention that I actually watched with a friend... Titanic 666. It's about as bad as the title sounds. The story was interesting, but everything else was just plain terrible! The deaths were poorly done, there should've been more gore in most of said deaths, some deaths didn't even make sense and shouldn't have been possible, This one guy's acting was terrible, but over all it was decent LMAO You can find Titanic 666 on Tubi! It's free too! It's a fun horror movie to binge with friend at night without wanting to risk too many nightmares! Don't get me wrong, there were at least two decent jump scares, and the imagery was decently scary... But overall, not as terrifying as it has the potential to be! 

TL;DR- Couldn't sleep and highly suggest you check out Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey, as well as Titanic 666

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Titanic Rises (2022)

It’s something of surprise to see that Titanic Rises is not a terrible movie by any stretch. It’s got a solid story, decent acting, some passable effects, and ghostly shenanigans.

Directed by Nick Lyon, written by Jacob Cooney and Jason White, and starring Keesha Sharp, Jamie Bamber, AnnaLynne McCord, Derek Yates, and Lydia Hearst. Titanic Rises also goes under the name of Titanic 666, two titles that should send a shiver down most horror fan’s spine. So, it’s something of surprise to see that Titanic Rises is not a terrible movie by any stretch. It’s got a solid story,…

[supermarcey]

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 89 – Titanic 666 (2022) Tubi Original Patreon Voted Pick

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 89 – Titanic 666 (2022) Tubi Original Patreon Voted Pick

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 89Titanic 666 (2022)Tubi Original Patreon Voted Pick Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/the-tubi-tuesdays-podcast-episode-89-titanic-666-2022.mp3 Welcome to our podcast series from The Super Network and Pop4D called Tubi Tuesdays Podcast! This podcast series is focused on discovering and doing commentaries/watch a longs for films found…

[ghurab-alzilal]

Journey Through Multiverse II

Damian, talking with Batman 666 : So, you gave your soul to the demon and that gave you immortality.

Batman 666: That's right, I can even use a couple of magic tricks.

Damian: Cool.

Raven: Damian Thomas Wayne Al Ghul, don't even think about it.

Damian: What?

Raven: Swear to me that under no circumstances will you sell your soul to the demon.

Batman 666: Too late Witch Girl, he, like me, has already eternally bound his soul to the demon and that is not going to change.

Raven: Not if I can help it.

Damian, confused : Wait what? I haven't even been in contact with a-

Batman 666: *winks*

Damian, looks closely at Batman 666 who is looking at Raven and, after thinking about it for a while, turns to Raven and nods : He's right. My soul belongs to the demon and what's worse I gave it for free. But I do not regret.

*Damian and Raven get into a heated argument*

Raven: I'll find a way to undo it!

Damian: You can't.

Raven: No Damian! Why? At what point did you do it?

Damian: The moment I met you.

Raven: Wait what?

Damian and Batman 666: *smiling with the same smile*

Raven: *blushes*

Batman 666, smirking : The White Witch will never believe me when I tell her this.

Part 1 - Part 3 - Part 4

Based on this AU by @chaosticbirds

[raventhedarkqueen]

Damian: Raven and I have the kind of easy chemistry where we finish each other's-

Raven: Sentences.

Damian: Don't interrupt me.

[opheliawillowbrook]

‘Past the point of rescuing? Why’d I keep pushing my luck?’

I act as if I don’t dwell in the past, but I do… Often. Remembering a time when things were less complicated. I took my life for granted then, all its newfound simplicity, the string of feelings and events I thought I’d never experience. 

‘The hole I wore into your soul has got too big to overlook…’

Now, that time is but a distant memory, haunting me whenever poetic justice catches my attention. However, sometimes those ghosts aren’t the kind to pass without judgment. Like the ghost that haunts me now.

Follow the link above to read the rest.

[carf-writes]

Possibly unhinged fic idea:

Bruce dies, but he goes out on his own terms so it's kind of okay

Dick becomes Batman and Damian is his Robin

They're handling it, they're making it work. Then Dick gets blown up (by that Joker fish like in that one comic, this is inspired by that one comic) and winds up in a coma

Damian goes off the rails and starts killing all the rouges in Gotham trying to figure out who was behind the attack (Joker is supposedly dead already)

Things do not work out great as he creates a huge power vacuum and Gotham descends into chaos. Tim shows up to try to talk some sense into Damian. Damian isn't having it, beats him up and throws him out.

Tim decides he needs to find a replacement Batman and goes on a quest to find one. Cass turns it down because now with everyone dead/in a coma and Damian killing people as Batman, she doesn't want anything to do with Batman anymore. And Jason who historically does not handle Bruce's death well, has gone AWOL and by the time Tim finds him, he's lost his will to live and is just hanging out.

Meanwhile, Gotham gets worse and worse and Damian realizes he's fucked up. He plans to stop the latest gang war and then hang up the cape forever. When Tim returns with Kon, Cassie, and Bart and announces it's actually okay for Batman to kill but Damian's been stupid about it. They're going to take over the world now, Injustice style and kill Damian too.

Damian fights them and eventually creates his own phantom zone projector to trap them since he's given up on killing but he knows no prison can hold them.

Anyway, Dick unexpectedly wakes up from his coma but is too injured by the ordeal to ever return to being a vigilante. Damian tells him what happened while he was in the coma except for the bit about Tim because it would only upset him. And Damian's kind of being selfish.

So they retired Batman and just live in their mansion on the hill like two spinster aunts.

Until 15 years later, Terry McGinnis shows up and they quickly realize that he's Bruce's son due to unethical human experiments. Also that he has a point and Gotham needs Batman again.

So they're Terry's men in the chair with Damian as the grumpiest, old man-iest 35 year old you've ever met. Maybe Cass makes a guest appearance and gives him so training while Jason makes a guest appearance to try to persuade him that Batman is a curse and should be abandoned to give him some food for thought.

Terry settles into the groove of things but Damian and Dick don't tell him about being Bruce's son because it's fucked up and also they love secrets.

Then Tim manages to rig an escape from the phantom zone. Terry initially thinks he's a ghost because he doesn't know Tim even exists.

Tim stages a whole dramatic reveal in the cave with his friends, making a point about Damian lying to Dick and Dick and Damian lying to Terry.

Gun!Batman!Tim speech ensues about how he doesn't want to be doing this but he has to even though he's miserable. Cassie, Kon, and Bart seem to actually be having fun but they're pretty pissed about the being trapped in the phantom zone for 15 years.

... and then I'm not really sure what happens from there. Just wanted to lay out this elaborate AU set-up

[emmathompsonegot]

Has anyone written a book on direct to streaming movies yet? They definitely deserve a book

[qu1nby]

so homophobic that I’m not cuddling and watching bad horror movies with someone rn

[krusher24k]

"I hear people blaspheming My

Name, I'll be free

Soon!!!.."

[wihellib]

Just some of my quick observations about the Belphegor teaser.

It looks like he’s wearing a hoodie. So, no suit like his nobles.

He wears black nail polish, but only on some of his fingers. Was he too lazy to finish?

He has eyelashes on his bottom lid but not the top for some reason.

He has rather short eyebrows and a 666 tattoo his forehead.

His hair is either black or dark purple and is slicked back at the top. So, no beanie. From this picture, his hair really does look like adult Eren from Attack on Titan.

[sheegons]

OKAY SO WHO ASKED FOR A POST THAT DETAILS DAMIANS CONNECTIONS TO MAGIC?.. nobody? oh okay.

(be forewarned, this is long)

now after ignoring batman 666, let's see what we have.

ROBIN: SON OF BATMAN (2015)

now, in robin: son of batman #1 It's confirmed that after his death in batman incorporated, damian went to hell. Hell is usually connected with the more magical side of the dc universe, but that's not it.

The entirety of the comic delves into damians connections to more mystical things. mythical swords and magical ancient towers, weird extinct bat-dragons, magical cults that want to destroy the whole world, etc etc.

this is easily regarded as one of damians best comics and having peak damian characterisation, so obviously Damian being magically inclined can easily work well with his character.

Now, after a barrel load of compliments, let's get to the extremely negative side of things.

TEEN TITANS (2016)

Damian's cloned brother has magic and that sentence is about as much as i care for this book. Moving on.

BATMAN (2016)

Again, dog shit damian characterisation, but here we go. Damian here actually shows an ability to use a binding spell and has a wand, making some sort of deal with a random demon, but a far cry from damian apparently selling his soul in batman 666. Moving on finally out of rebirth because that was a bad time for Damian's character.

ROBIN (2021)

Now we go back to the good. Apparently from the maternal part of damians family, magic is more commonplace. ra's even having a whole spell book to his name. Robin 2021 kinda toys with the ghul family and the lazarus pits magical and devilish side which isn't new... but it's new to involve damian!

In the final parts of this story, Damian's heart specifically is used as a plot device, lord deathman even dubbing it as "the bloodstream of the demon" and ruh (ra's' mother) uses it as a power source to fuel demon summonings, which started the Lazarus rain event.

TEEN TITANS DARK (Unreleased)

Back in early 2023 (i think) dc teased a sort of "teen titans dark" with damian, black alice and monkey prince. The "dark" moniker referencing Justice league dark, a magic team made up of magic users that solve magical bullshit. It's a good book, recommended read, i just thought I'd add this to the pile.

Detective comics/Knight terrors

Now, including these two together because they're about the same topic: Dreams.

damian is confirmed to have some sort of control over dreams and sleep, defeating demons that show up in his sleep, yet never actually disappear when he wakes up. He also has an ability to stay awake after a massive worldwide phenomenon causes everyone, even the dream masters that taught damian, to sleep and experience night terrors.

Dreams are, again, connected to the magical side of the dc universe. Now I'm not going to pretend like i actually read sandman to you, i can't lie on ramadan, so let's all give me a pass here for my lack of understanding of all that.

Batman and robin (2023)

In this, damian mentions a bit of off screen monster hunting with Frankenstein and lays a trap that lights someone on fire. I used to think this was some sort of hex but this artwork is extremely unclear, but since Frankenstein is mentioned and from my knowledge dc's Frankenstein is magic let's pretend this is some sort.

As an extra note: this guy definitely died. There's no way about it, he got lit on fire with nobody helping him. He's gone. Damian just killed a man.

Extra Extra notes:

talia using magic!

now, i haven't included these examples in the "the ghuls have magic" segment because uh...

(batman: the doom that came to Gotham/dc bombshells)

yeah...

Not only are these interpretations of talia EXTREMELY orientalist but also just generally out of character and could've been done with any randomly introduced characters.

For the unknowing white american people in the crowd: arabs actually don't only dress in revealing "belly dancer" outfits and lanterns. i know, shocking, we actually wear normal clothes.

And just to add again, there's a lot of stories that include ra's having magic, but I'm not the biggest ra's head (lol) so i didn't read them all, i implore u to do your own research because I'm not doing it.

this about wraps it up. thank you to the magic damian believers may we all win someday.

[sketch-mer-6195]

Scare Tactic (Earthspark Megatron x gn!Reader)

My very first gender neutral reader for all who love this handsome mech! It is a bit of a shorty but, I'm glad how it ended up! Word Count: 666 (by the allspark we're doomed) Warnings: Fluff, sfw, lots of cybertroninan anatomy terms...if that's a warning?

Anywhizzlepop, enjoy the funny!

You think that you're so funny, right? Scaring the former Warlord and Leader of the Decepticon's half to death and making him think he actually squished you beneath his peds.

Well it was kinda funny for a moment.

You had Dottie take you to Ghost Headquarters as you had several close calls with Decepticon's since your move to Witwicky. In reality, you wanted to see Megs and catch up a little bit since he had been swamped thanks to Agent Croft. So, when you got the opportunity to find him in the halls reading over a communication pad. It was just perfect. Hiding behind the large pillar that supported the walls, you waited till he got close to where you were until you let out the most Energon curdling screech you could muster.

Poor Megatron jumped a good 12 feet in the air hearing your scream. He knew it was you. His spark about ready to go into supernova if he knew he was the one who actually hurt you.

But as he began to think of what you were going to look like under his ped, the sound of your laughter was soon replaced. Making the titan raise a brow in utter confusion, he looked down to see you rolling on the floor and clutching your midsection because of your laughter. Your feet kicking in the air as tears started to prick at the corners of your eyes as your laughter continued. Megatron was deeply relieved that you were perfectly fine and let out a heavy ex-vent he had no idea he was holding. But what was once relief in his ruby optics were soon replaced with slight annoyance with a hint of mirth.

"(Y/N)! What in the Allspark do you think you're doing? Deceiving me into thinking I severely harmed you." He lectured you.

As your laughing fit soon fizzled to giggles, you sat up and wiped your eyes and cheeks. Looking up at your beloved 'Con, you knew you weren't going to get out of this so easily.

"I'm sorry, Megs. But… it was just too easy to not pass up the opportunity!" You explained as you stood and brushed off the dust on your pants.

With a slight glare, Megatron offered you his servo to which you happily accepted and perched yourself into his palm. With his thumb securing you around your waist, he lifted you to his chassis only to see Elita-one and Optimus running down the hall.

"What's wrong!" Elita exclaimed.

"We heard someone in distress! We came as fast as we could." Optimus said before laying optics to see the only culprit.

“Apologies, old friend. (Y/N) here came to visit and surprised me.” Megatron replied as he carefully lifted you to his shoulder plating. “Come to think of it, I was thinking of showing them my latest simulation.”

Turning on his struts, Megatron had a smirk on his own dermas to which Prime had no intention of figuring out what his plan was. You on the other hand were not planning on what was about to happen next. In the training simulation room, Megatron activated the system with a simple command where a pillar formed and rose to his eye level before plucking you off his shoulder.

“Ah! Hey!”

“This will teach you not to scare me.” And with a simple wave of his servo, the pillar rose an extra 15 feet into the air with Megatron chuckling.

“Megatronus! Put me down this instance!” You ranted only to hear your lover chuckle and soon begin to full blow tanks-laugh.

Again, it was funny. And in the end, it was worth it. Even if you scared the Spark out of him. He forgot about work, laughing and relaxing with you. Which you ended up laughing and him bringing you back to his level so you two could have a little stroll through the halls and talk about each other's day.

Now… what’s next to get your ‘Con lover?

Tagging: @robot-horde @mysticboombox @nilawii

[notmasonpines]

Calendars of the Boiling Isles

(In-Universe excerpt first, analysis on BI calendars and notes on this excerpt further down)

Tl;dr: Dana said the BI has a 666 day calendar, the show says it has a 365 day calendar, I say that concluding this is a simple contradiction is boring, and that both calendars existing is more fun to discuss (just that Belos hated the old calendar and forced the Gregorian one onto the BI after he established the empire).

Prior to the founding of the empire, the witches and demons of the Boiling Isles measured the passage of time with the Celestial Calendar, which was based on the periodic and reliable cyclic trajectory of the Wandering Star through the thirteen segments of the Intestina Tract wrapped around the celestial sphere. A full cycle in this calendar consisted of 666 days, with 74 weeks of nine days divided over 13 months, each defined by the period the Wandering Star spent in one of the constellations, which could become quite disproportionate in some cases. However, soon after the founding of the empire, emperor Belos implemented and began to enforce the Imperial calendar. The Imperial calendar employs years that consist of 365 days, divided into 52 weeks of seven days. These weeks are further divided into nine months, with four months of five whole weeks, three of six, and two of seven. These months can further be associated with one of the main covens, as per the Titan’s Will, providing a deeper symbolic connection to our lands and magic rather than a reliance on an extra-terrestrial phenomenon. The remaining day, separating the years, belongs to no weekday or month, instead being associated with the Emperor’s Coven, and is called a day of unity —Not to be confused with The Day of Unity, which is a promised, singular event, the date whereof may fall on any day, and could be significant enough to serve as the new transition point between years in a post-Unity calendar. Every four years there is a pair of days of duality instead, where the celebrations for the past year and the upcoming year are expanded upon and split between the two. The switching of calendars brought many difficulties to the Isles. Mainly the need to convert between a person’s Celestial and Imperial age, though the former is now firmly out of use, beyond elderly people attempting to sound younger through letters or Penstagram messages, as well as the switch to shorter five-day work weeks from the prior seven days. This last change was considered a positive by many, and the more regular, even spread of the weeks over the months compared to the old system helped with the smooth, willing adoption of the Imperial calendar. The only remnant of the old calendar can be seen in the practice of assigning people birth constellations based on the Wandering Star’s position in the Intestina Tract, which can bring quite some confusion to the younger generations, as this cycle does not line up with our coven-based one, with several constellations inconsistently overlapping and shifting over time if one only has the written attempts to match Imperial times with Celestial months to rely on.

I've always found the references to what calendar the Boiling Isles uses interesting…but also very confusing/conflicting. The first time it really came to my attention was during the Q&A panel the crew held for Gallery Nucleus. One of the questions was about star signs, to which Dana (indirectly through a pre-prepared text) answered that the BI has a calendar that consists of 666 day years with 13 months, each represented as a worm or tube-like demon (I at first almost didn't catch the joke of just how easy it is to make constellations for those animals, just connect any sequence of stars with a single line and you're done).

So, funny hahah Beast's Number and unlucky number for Demon and Witching Realm calendar, very fitting.

Except then come the complications.

First of all, ages would be all out of whack. Since BI years in this calendar would be 1.8 times as long as Earth years, that would mean that the age of someone according to this calendar (which I'll call the Edgy Calendar for short) is about half what you expect compared to their biological age based on our own calendar. And we do get actual age drops by BI residents, like Hunter being called 16 by Darius, or Skara having her 15th birthday.

Either that means the Hexside crew except Luz are actually all in their mid 20s to 30s based on Earth years, and physically age about half as fast as humans (which they don't. It's confirmed witches have similar natural lifespans to that of humans), the days on the BI are only 13 hours long (which I can't imagine Luz's biological clock vibing with while having her remain as upbeat and awake as we see her in the show), or the fun Calendar fact from the Q&A doesn't fit with canon and is just straight-up false, with canon trumping anything contradictory said by the creators outside of the show (something Dana subscribes to) and the BI use a Calendar with years that are about as long as our own.

And it makes sense that the Edgy Calendar is more a joke than a serious fact. It wasn't even part of the main response to the actual question that was anticipated, since that was about star signs and birth constellations. The Calendar was just made to completely mismatch ours so there'd be no easy or meaningful way to determine birth signs for BI characters. It could definitely also be an early concept thing that wasn't implemented because of the previously mentioned age stuff, or something that was thought up far too late to implement and match with in-canon stuff (like the mentioned ages).

But that's also a very boring answer, especially since the 666-13 stuff is very fitting. So, how to reconcile the complications while having our cake and eating it too?

Well, see the excerpt back at the top: Just have the Edgy Calendar be the old one and the Earth-like Calendar the new one, implemented by Belos when he rose to power.

It would certainly be in-character for him to do so. We know he was losing track of time after he'd spent a while in the Demon Realm, and the mismatched Calendars at the time would definitely contribute to that. Add to that the fact both the Beast's Number and the unlucky number are involved, and someone like Philip would absolutely despise it. Obviously one of his first acts as Emperor would be to abolish it and implement a calendar that matches the Gregorian one in length. The man completely upended an entire culture with the Coven system, surely he can implement a new calendar.

This does bring along the interesting implication that the Boiling Isles doesn't really have any event or cycle that could determine a year, as otherwise such a switch would've never been possible, let alone accepted (like seasons, which we don't really see. Though we're only there in the summer period from Earth's perspective). Which further implies that the BI planet has very little to no axial tilt.

The Moonlight Conjuring does put a bit of a wrench in this idea, however, since it's said that 'the celestial powers only align once a year'. Which would be a great way to define a calendar, and brings questions as to why it wasn't used like that before.

Then again, though this is a common expression for 'each instance happens exactly one year apart', it technically only says it happens once a year, not that the time between consecutive events is regular or predictable (you can have the Oracle Coven predict when the next one comes). Perhaps it's more like a lunar eclipse that just so happens to occur often enough to be almost always once a year.

As for how I put together my own 'Imperial Calendar', one of the few things we do know about the calendar that's currently in use (besides the years being as long as Earth years), is that at least one month has 40 or more days (Eda talks about 40th of Scabuary in Them's the Breaks, Kid, and in Wing it Like Witches we see a calendar month that's six weeks of seven days each long).

To be honest, I certainly like the idea of having months that are made up of whole weeks, making each date have the same weekday no matter what year it is.

And then came the task of dividing 52 weeks of seven days (plus the unaffiliated day) into neat months. After some struggling, the best, most pleasing combination I could come up with was 4 months of 5 weeks, three of 6, and two of 7. That it amounts to 9 months to match the main covens was also very convenient.

Some last notes: Since, with these conclusions, the BI didn't have any significant annual cycle they used to keep track of the years, they could've used any regular cycle to keep track of the years. So, rather than something lame and normal like the actual orbit of the Demon Realm planet (tracked through observing the sun move through some constellations near its ecliptic), or by observing the phases of its moon for the months, I made up something more wacky.

Since we already had the Wailing Star, I thought a star that makes a meandering trip across the night sky over the span of 666 days would be fun (And it could be one of the Archivists, idk. I like the headcanon that the Wailing Star is one of the Archivisists, crying out over the loss of their sibling, so why not have another that continues its normal duty of observing from a distance, slowly making their way along a route that passes along all the planets in the sky that they check in on?) And since the star doesn't move along the tract at an equal speed (the actual layout of star systems it floats past will be at different distances, despite looking projected on a sphere from the perspective of a BI resident) it brings some extra funkiness of some months being widely longer than others.

Plus, since all the constellations are worms or worm-like, I can use the name for an old, outdated taxonomy system where most typical worms were classed under 'Intestina', and since this version of the 'zodiac belt' is less a belt and more a random track, the 'Intestina Tract' matches perfectly with the pun names based on body parts that all locations on the BI have. I also imagine the Intestina Tract as being illustrated as a bunch of worms and tube-like demons one after the other, each eating the next's tail like some messed up, multi-stage ouroboros.

Anyway, thanks for reading.