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OH I moved into, for the first time in my life, my own place. No roommates, no family, just ME. As such, I've broke out the most important purchase I've ever made:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night FRIDGE MAGNETS. They were $15. 12 year old me would think I'm so cool, and that's what being an adult is all about sometimes.

"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

[Embedded video, older quality, echoes of people working in the background]

Director Woody Allen is facing model Twiggy, his back ¾ to the camera, and the clip starts with him finishing a question or topic of discussion. Subtitles for their dialogue are displayed in Russian across the bottom screen.

Allen: …Your views on serious matters.

Twiggy: About what? [Her eyebrows drawn forward, she looks at Allen pensively]

Allen: I don’t know, who’s your favorite philosopher?

Twiggy, eyebrows raised and smiling in sheepish surprise: I haven’t got one, (here she laughs, sticking out her tongue playfully), I don’t know any. Who’s yours?

Allen: Oh (he leans to the side suddenly, adjusting himself, his voice picks up nervously, stuttering) I, you know, I, I like, I like them all, haha!

Twiggy (smiling, eyes following his movements): Who? 

Allen: All your basic philosophers–

Twiggy: Who? 

Allen: Just, all of them–

Twiggy: I don’t know their names, I don’t know.. (Her smile drops as she stares at him, head tilted, seems to grimace in confusion at his hedging) 

Allen: Oh, I, ah, see there’s a host…

[Clip ends with a close up on Twiggy’s face as she starts to politely smile again.]

(I had to type this all out, however badly. Just makes it funnier and pathetic)

Also important to mention that she was 17 and he was 31.

the best part of the calliope bonus episode of the sandman was the absolute care and attention to detail that went into depicting the scary subtleties of men who abuse, exploit, and manipulate women. 

the brilliant casting choice of arthur darvill as richard madoc, a likeable actor who has played likeable characters, someone we would probably never think as a bad guy, to be calliope’s captor. richard madoc’s claims of being a feminist, citing famous female authors as his source of inspiration, using feminism and anti-racism as a marketing ploy to make himself look “woke”, dehumanizing calliope because she’s a muse, because she’s immortal, because he was told not to view her as human. 

the single scratch as a symbol of an unforgivable violence, dream’s acknowledgement that his over a century imprisonment is nothing compared to the decades she spent having men forcefully take from her, calliope’s gentle reminder not to compare their traumas because they are different but both valid, dream asserting that richard madoc still must be punished, calliope’s decision to forgive him in the end not for him but for herself, her setting off to rewrite the laws which imprisoned her in the first place and dream vowing to do the same in his realm. 

every aspect of this episode is so so relevant and it’s handled well at every turn, beautifully adapting its source material, giving its antagonist a punishment from his own mind, giving him an abundance of what he unjustly took from someone else and plaguing him with it until he has nothing left because that is what his actions deserved. 

also just the fact that calliope is played by a greek actress. a small detail that i love. there’s just so many good things and it’s driving me up the walls in the best way possible because i’m so glad we got these bonus episodes, i’m so glad we get to see this.