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Your body ain't forget me.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Illustrations for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves | Shiosai | 潮騒, by Lâm Tùng Nguyễn.

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This early concept of RoboCop by Rob Bottin is so erotic for no reason

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miscellaneous uncs

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i haven't watched unisols 2, 3, and the return, only regeneration and day of reckoning, but imo while regeneration and DoR are really good in terms of cinematography and story considering they're direct-to-dvd i also think they fumble andrew scott's potential in terms of exploring the same ground with luc that the first movie did (and tbh that a ton of other films already do, "innocent american gets drafted and molded into something unrecognizable" is a very common war movie archetype)

but i think there's a lot of potential to andrew's character and exploring how a lot of already mentally unstable white american men look forward to wartime because it provides an avenue where they can tap into their worst impulses (murder, rape, etc) with a technically "hostile" marginalized enemy side (like the vietnamese in the 1992 movie) while being shielded by their colonial status and privilege, only to (inevitably) come out of it traumatized themselves while still being shielded by said culture (how many movies exist that are just "we invaded this country and we feel really bad about it". andrew got a second chance by being reborn as a unisol and commander perry bent over backwards to shield the violence that andrew was committing under the unisol program).

this isn't a "woobify andrew scott" post but i think that a lot of people are uncomfortable by insinuating that vets are anything less than selfless sacrificial people or by exploring trauma manifestations that aren't palatable/are self-harming rather than outwardly destructive like luc's (while andrew's are very antisocial/ASPD-coded). i think regeneration is better than DoR in that regard considering that clonedrew in DoR is just a walking manifesto for the unisol liberation cause that the movie centers itself around while luc and john get all the actual scenes of emotional levity though. DoR andrew just feels like they brought him back because they needed a crazy guy to be the guevara to luc's castro while regeneration andrew is the most interesting character in the movie when he's not retreading the "loose cannon backstabs his frankenstein" scene from the 1992 movie, even though i loved that scene in regeneration

tl;dr this isnt a "unisol day of reckoning bad" or a "unisol regeneration bad" rant just my thoughts about how ironic it is to make two movies exploring in-depth the systemic and often direct violence and desensitization required to condition people into war while not using the character who was established in 1992 as being especially susceptible to violence and propaganda to his fullest to do it

(i think it would have been better if, like luc, andrew survived at the end of regeneration so the andrew we see in DoR is the same as the one who broke free of his conditioning *again* in regeneration and decided to become a unisol liberation revolutionary because of his experiences being dehumanized instead of the implication of "he's always going to be a messy bitch no matter how many times you clone him" which unironically robs andrew of his narrative autonomy more than what luc has experienced)

personally i think REGENERATION is the best unisol sequel thus far than the others

has the most best bits (esp the deveraux vs scott fight its so heavy handed i love it), n the coloring grading is peak

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images that have been frying me lately for no reason

can he read????

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What’s your opinion on murphy x lewis?

Not the biggest fan myself, but I think it's cute under specific circumstances! The main reason why I'm not a huge fan is because not every male and female friendship should be shipped together! I do not hate or even dislike those who do ship it, but it's just not my cup of tea! Thanks for asking!

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horror sub-genres/techniques: anime horror

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Now in these last agonizing minutes of life you have left, let me answer the question you asked earlier more thoroughly.

KILL BILL, VOL. 2 2004 — dir. Quentin Tarantino

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Shower thoughts on Misato's perfume... Lavender is an interesting choice because its masculine coded, which I already rambled about. But perfume's position is strange in Japan - not a big market because of very different cultural norms. So - why'd she start wearing it? (My headcanon is she stole Kaji's, but then - where'd he pick up the habit?) Germany seems likely, steering back away from the headcanon and to the assumption Misato didn't steal her perfume from Kaji originally... and takes us right to Lohse Uralt Lavendel, a women's Lavender-forward perfume and cologne from Germany, first manufactured in the 1830s and still going. It's lavender heavy, without the musk and sweetness of a lot of modern lavender fragrances geared towards women. Sharp, elegant, a little bitter... Sounds a lot like Misato, and exactly the opposite of the kind of sweet-gourmand/sports freshie scent we'd associate with Asuka's youth. Maybe she picked up a little green bottle while she was in Germany for NERV. Maybe she wears Lohse Uralt Lavendel.

But lavender's interesting on another level. It's completely foreign to Japan - the local name for it is ラベンダー, which translates literally back to lavender/rabenda transliterated from the English, as part of the funny period of overlapping English Japanophilia and Japanese Anglophilia. It started being grown in Hokkaido in a big way in the 1950s, as an attempt to produce something profitable to help collapsing farms stay afloat in the turmoil of the early years of the Economic Miracle, and specifically was grown for oil production - then eventually, a tourist attraction for fields of purple flowers. That's an interesting bit of symbolism itself. Misato smells of the scent of sudden, scrambling disorder and recovery from devastation so vast it reshaped Japanese society in ways that echoed especially strongly in early otaku circles - the ones that Gainax grew up watching and reading the products of. She smells of an era of protest and unrest that ultimately gave way to one of conservative domination and mass capitalism. And then, to top that off, if the hanakotoba stuff I've been able to google up is remotely correct,* lavender shares a meaning with European floriography - fidelity, but also, potential distrust. Misato, from what we can tell, has never taken another lover after Kaji... And when it's an indirect date night with him, sure enough, she wears lavender. If we compound that together - she's wearing the smell of romantic fidelity and disaster, and that's exactly her relationship with Kaji. She lied to him about infidelity because she was scared, then never moved on - she stayed, despite it being over, faithful to an idea of intimacy with him and him alone. She can't trust him or herself, but she wishes she could. *: like all flower languages it's necessarily fairly arbitrary, and from what I can tell, seems to be another product of the Victorian and Edwardian-era exchange between Japan and England - where a similar, and similarly coded, flower language was in vogue among the tiny subset of society that gave a shit.

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you tell me

(3rd image by deimos art)

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𝑭𝑳𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵 𝑴𝑼𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑵𝑼 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝑶𝑳𝑷𝑯 𝑳𝑼𝑵𝑫𝑮𝑹𝑬𝑵 as Viktor and Ivan Drago in Creed II ( 2018 ) .