ComicCon Leicester is going well! Met lots of nice people
me
do you ever just decide someone is the greatest person ever after having one small positive interaction with them? Like I could have a 3 minute conversation with someone and then someone will be like do you know jessica? and I’ll be like yaaaas my bitch jess I’d die for her meanwhile jessicas probably like who tf is that
Hey apparently it’s Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Day! And there’s a challenge going round which is, list 10 things you loved about those movies! So, okay, I will. (In no particular order.)
10) The costumes. God damn, the costumes. Not even just Padme’s ones, either, though those are the ones that get the most attention – all of the costumes are friggin’ works of art.
9) The introduction of many more great female characters to the Star Wars universe, starting with Padme and her Handmaidens. I agree with that post that goes “how many other movies can you name where a bunch of 14-year-old girls save a planet?” and yeah, that’s what happened, and it was Good.
8) I’ve mentioned this before, more than once, but: the political commentary. Star Wars was created by a god-damn ‘SJW’, you guys.
7) People are always complaining about the acting in the Prequels, but I don’t understand why, because Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L Jackson, Christopher Lee and Ian McDiarmid especially were giving it their all. And clearly having LOTS of fun.
6) Everything about Duel of the Fates. It’s just a really, really well-done bit of cinema.
5) The fact that even now, ten years down the line, people are still passionately arguing about who was right and who was wrong in these movies. Were the Jedi baby-stealing monsters who deserved what they got? Was Anakin’s fall the result of some innate evil or did his past and the Jedi push him into it? Was his killing the Tusken Raiders justified? And so on. So much for those movies having no depth.
4) The music, which is all incredible, but a special mention for: “Duel of the Fates”, “Across the Stars”, “Padme’s Ruminations” and “Anakin vs Obi-Wan”.
3) The beauty of the cinematography and all the carefully constructed parallels with the other movies
2) Qui-Gon Jinn, who is one of my favourite fictional characters ever, and the sheer amount of Interest going on with him
1) Whenever I watch TPM I’m reminded of when I was thirteen and the summer was so long and whenever you opened a bag of something a Star Wars toy would fall out. That’s not a bad place to go back to, regardless of the funny looks you get when you rank it first among Star Wars movies.
Friend: may the fourth be with you
me: And also with you
me: And now a reading from Luke to the Gungans
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book meme
Tagged by @szyszkasosnowa!
Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you in
some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard – they
don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have
touched you. Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make
sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!
1. Maus by Art Speigelman. Honestly…everyone on the face of the planet should read this book.
2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Well, you’ve seen this blog
3. The Return of the Jedi novelization by James Kahn, my first introduction to Star Wars
4. Holes by Louis Sachar, just an amazing book (that got made into an amazing movie)
5. Carrie by Stephen King, it awakens dark things in me
6. Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett’s non-Discworld books don’t get enough love, but they’re wonderful
7. Watchmen by Alan Moore. Don’t watch the movie, read the book
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan. Home to Briony Tallis, one of my favourite fictional characters ever
9. The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. I love Holmes and Watson. Sherlock doesn’t do them anywhere near justice
10. Watership Down by Richard Adams, my favourite childhood book. They’re making a new adaptation! John Boyega’s gonna be in it!
lunarhobbits
replied to your post “One of the stories my grandmother did tell me about the Blitz was- -…”
wOW
Apparently EVERYTHING was bombed in Cleethorpes during the Blitz, I guess it was just a case of live in constant terror or…not live in constant terror…
Some day, when I’m rich, I wanna fund a documentary about what life was like during the war in Cleethorpes and Grimsby. So much of it was kept secret, I gather, that it never ever made it into the newspapers at the time. My uncle actually already started going round our relatives’ houses and getting their memories of the war on tape, there’s such a treasure trove of quite amazing stories, I don’t want them ever to be lost!