#world record book

[triviamastery]

Do you love the Guinness world records? Check out this quiz! https://youtu.be/N9OVcCd4klQ

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[saintarmand]

iwtv is insanity inducing bc every time you google some reference in it you find out theyre doing some 4d chess with the symbolism… like okay playing roosevelt's speech about the us joining ww2 in the background as claudia tells louis shes gonna kill lestat is pretty straightforward, and of course the chess game theyre playing foreshadows how she beats him in the next episode but doesn't "finish the game" ie burn him. and bc claudia later compares lestat to the nazis/hitler, that obviously makes lestat germany and thus claudia is poland and louis is the us/roosevelt in the speech we hear: "I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany" etc. BUT THEN you get nerdy and google some of the chess terms lestat uses like the dutch defense and stonewalling which is pretty interesting and then you vaguely remember one of the writers said the scene was based on some famous chess game, and you realize it must be glücksberg vs miguel najdorf which turns out to be literally called the POLISH IMMORTAL. najdorf was polish and glücksberg is some unknown but based on the name likely german. this was najdorf's first famous game, at the beginning of his career when he was only like 19 or something although we dont know the exact details of the game (and ofc you watch a few videos on the polish immortal and they all heavily criticize glücksberg's moves which makes lestat's arrogance even funnier) and ALSO, in 1939 (literally at the same time as the chess scene takes place) najdorf was participating in a chess tournament in buenos aires and since he was not only polish but also jewish, he stayed there rather than return home. his whole family was killed in the holocaust but he lived a long life in argentina. why is this relevant? because BUENOS AIRES which btw lestat also calls "la reina del plata" so you google that and find the 1930 song by carlos gardel and the lyrics are literally— anyway so buenos aires is where lestat planned for them to move to in ep7. perhaps if they had indeed gone to argentina instead of europe… well… perhaps… perhaps…

[ellieofcrows]

The desire that I have to kiss this man on his forehead is unparalleled.

[ectogeranium]

YEASSSSS, DANCE !! DANCE FOR THEM !!

[franken-shits]

Thinking about punk herstory again...

[moonilit]

Thinking about these two beautiful strong ladies becoming best friends 💙🤎

*psst* chapter 19

[flanaganfilm]

If there's one horror trope (other than the jumpscare) that you could get rid of, what would it be?

I think the one that annoys me the most is cell phones. The dead battery trope, or the inexplicably lost signal trope - I understand why they exist, because it's very hard to justify why people can't use their phones as life lines in a horror movie. I've even gone as far as to lean toward setting things in different decades just to avoid the cell phone problem. It's one of the reasons Bly Manor was set in the 1980s, because we knew that the entire ensemble having access to cell phones would make the plot almost impossible to advance as the story progressed.

I suppose the other ones I dislike are the "Just a Dream" scares. There are some examples of these done very well - THE DESCENT has a gorgeous one in the first act, which sets up an absolutely heartbreaking one in the final act - but for the most part, these are an excuse to sneak a scare into a story without reason or consequence. I'm guilty of using these myself - sometimes there is huge pressure from above to add scares, and it's too early to let the characters in on the supernatural events - but sometimes these moments are just cynical and frustrating.

As for jumpscares, as the current Guinness World Record holder for Most Jumpscares in an Episode of Television - more times than not, they work against the horror. There are beautiful examples of scares done magnificently well, but 99/100 of them diffuse tension, I believe.

[deer-a-day]

047

various

[projectdivaar]

nthn good in Camden so I'm treating my ass myself

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[christinered]

She must be very tired. Her mother must be very proud.

What I am stunned by ???

Who knew Guinness kept kink World Records?

I think we need to see what other World Records are out there.

~Red

[stuckasmain]

Ok that’s another thing-

In 2001 it sort of implies Dave could close his eyes and concentrate and essentially be across the known universe in seconds. If he wanted to be.

As the series goes on he and the literal alien gods are apparently limited to speeds that are slightly slightly more elevated than ours as it’d still take him a long Ass time to get to the admin just he can afford it because immortality???

Really if we remembered this he could just pop over and go “hey that’s going to be a No on the kill order” and we could spare the save the world plot because the fact that you can defeat them/they’re something to be defeated goes against???? Everything? But I’m saying in a — dhdjsnsmsms

[julescarstairs]

I honestly love the trope in fantasy books/novels in general set in an academic setting where the main characters — despite allegedly being straight A students or high performing students — canonically spend no time in their classes whatsoever.

[mountmortar]

went to grab a bottle of water and saw how bright the full moon was in the sky and started looking at it and then got hit with the absolute gutpunch of a realization that the full moon i'm looking at is the same one that shone down on every life form that has ever come into being on this earth

[baeshijima]

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

YINGXING MENTION IN THE RECORDS 😭😭

but like also smth tells me this thing

will awaken in a future update which might be when we get introduced to marshal hua ??? idk it just seems like that way + getting it as a new weekly boss 🧍‍♀️

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

The only mildly unfunny thing about the Button House Archives is that I'm too much of a nerd to see the humour in some of the jokes. When I read Fanny's menu I'm not sniggering at all the weird dishes, I instead get really excited and bring up Firefox to search which ones are historical and which are made up, while imagining what people might have found appealing about those tastes and textures. People used to do things weirdly in the past; isn't this so antiquated and funny-haha? No actually, I'm very busy enjoying thinking about how those things would construct an alternative cultural and societal context in which these wacky things actually make total sense and how our own rules nowadays are equally arbitrary, but because we get to experience them for ourselves and see how they all fit together and support each other this feels like the only "natural" way to do things, the only way that "makes sense" (same as their own ways seemed for the people in the past), which unfortunately limits all of our understandings of what it means to be human.

I very much do still enjoy reading those bits though, only in a more absorbed than amused way. Popular humour is such a window into the mental landscape of a society, and this book is a treasure trove of ideas. I love it!