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The official Geekvolving’s guide to Star Trek: Catspaw (Oct 27, 1967)

It was a happy accident that I watched this Halloween themed episode just a few days ago, so I decided to make a post since this is the season.

In the beginning of the episode the landing party, consisting of Sulu, Scotty and redshirt Jackson, goes missing on a lifeless planet Pyris VII. The Enterprise manages to beam Jackson back to the ship, but he is soon found dead. Nobody saw that coming.

A second landing party is beaming down to search for Scotty and Sulu.

6:11 of the episode:  It’s middle of the night and I watch the episode in my bed, headphones on. I had expected something horrible luring in the fog - instead I get these three plague witches. I laugh out loud.

This is the point when I start to suspect that this episode is some sort of Halloween shite. (”First broadcast October 27, 1967″ -Wikipedia.)

The random Scooby-Doo witches tell the landing party to get out of our lawn, kids. The landing party continues the search.

Fast forward: There’s a castle (spook level 1).

And a scene where Scotty and Sulu are finally found but they blink zero times (anxiety level 9).

Finally the crew meets the episode’s two antagonists: An alien wizard Korob, who looks like any crafts teacher ever in a robe. In fact he was eventually a really nice guy tho.

The other is Sylvia, former cat (everyone kept staring at the cat during the episode, which was hilarious af). She just likes to watch the world burn: here she is torturing the ship.

Sylvia is hungry for new feelings etc. in her human form. She and Kirk make out a bit (nice, clean kissing), so the captain manages to dig out the weakness of this power-hungry woman - a mf magic wand.

She gets angry and turns into a giant domestic cat, because why not. Here they are actually showing this cat, otherwise it’s just it’s shadow looming behind the corner. (spook level: 0,5)

Also here’s a proof that I am in fact 12 years old:

Back off, lady. Jim Kirk’s wand is only reserved for Spock.

The episode ends a few minutes after this lovely scene. Korob and Sylvia are now returned into their original forms (weird plant-looking creatures) and they are destroyed.

Scotty, Sulu and Bones (right, he was also turned into a mindless, unblinkable man during the episode) are back to normal, and everyone lives (except the redshirt, remember?) happily ever after until the next horrible mission.

Thank you for reading, this was Faltzu and Geekvolving’s Official Guide to Star Trek TOS: “Catspaw”, S2E07. If you really wanna know what’s happening this episode, I recommend to watch it. 

One like = one prayer to Korob.

[heartstoppercomic]

chapter 5-24

birthday time!

read from the beginning / read on tapas / read on webtoon / my art blog / art instagram / heartstopper merch / read the next update early on Patreon!

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…?

Heartstopper updates three times a month, on the 1st, 11th, and 21st.

I really appreciate reblogs and shares - please help me spread word about this comic! I’m so excited for people to read it!

[geekvolving]

Twin Peaks (more or less) ooc part 5

Aaand here we go with part 5 (this will never end, huh?)! This time I watched 8 episodes in two sessions, with a two-week gap between them. I have no clue what does my notes from the first session even mean lol.

// more or less with spoilers, without context:

- It took me two seconds to start to hate Norma’s mom, just wow what a pleasant little b****

- Love how Ben sees a mf toe and is like “Catherine!! <3 it’s u”

- I love Denise

- Cooper: Did you say “Dead dog”? I want it

- Little Nicky is a demon. You cannot change my mind.

- “Let’s pretend that this is my father” - “An ice cube?”

- Jacoby is way too excited to roleplay a Southerner.

- I have zero idea what even happened to Ben in the first place. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention or?? It almost looked like I was watching just some weird side story shenanigans.

[scarletwitcheries]

“Agent Cooper is the finest lawman I’ve ever known. I’ve had nothing but respect for him since he arrived in Twin Peaks.”

“I’m fond of Harry Truman. The thought that he may be in over his head is troubling to me.”

[calvinandhobbes]

they

[geekvolving]

Twin Peaks (more or less) ooc part 4

Alright alright, as I mentioned before, after six months my journey with Twin Peaks continues as a one-man-show! Thank you, Covid. I’m trying to finish season 2 as fast as I can, but decided to drop the word “marathon” since I’m capable of watching one or two episodes per evening.

Here’s the list of thoughts about season 2 episodes 11-14 (I guess???). Once again more or less with spoilers, without context:

- First of all, I accidentally re-watched an episode I’ve already seen. Didn’t notice anything until the first 10 minutes had gone so I thought: nah, I’m going to watch this again. I also googled the episode listing and honestly, I had zero idea the second season will have way more episodes than the first one lol.

- SOMEBODY GIVE LELAND A HUG

- Mr Lynch himself appears, impersonating my grandfather

- Are we allowed to be scared of Leo? (Well, maybe the moral complexity of the case was the point?)

- I wrote in my notes: Mr Tojamura that jap guy has been smoking wayyy too much

- Leland & Ben karaoke <3

- a wild Log Lady appears. Coop/Truman + Log Lady is #squadgoals

- Mr Tojamura wow okay huh

- OKAY NO HUGS FOR LELAND HFDHFDJHDKFH

Part 3 - 

[hellomelancholic]

Honest-to-god think that the Gameboy Advance SP is the best video game console ever made. Like we should've just stopped trying after that. We should've just kept shoving more and more powerful hardware into it's guts kept and adding more buttons until you could run Doom Eternal on it. That's all we had to do and we fucked it up.

[hellomelancholic]

Look at this bad boy. Perfectly square. Compact. 7 buttons. Fits in your pocket. You can play Doom on it! Runs games from every Gameboy generation bc they all use the same cartridge architecture and backend!!! Tetris!!!!!! Whip it out anywhere. Built like a fucking brick. Hurl this man at a wall and it'll come out fine. Mine only broke bc the charging port rusted out bc I lost it for like four years. The peak of design. We should've just left it with this. No need to go further.

[geekvolving]

Current news from Geekvolving

Hi guys, hope you’ve been well for the last few months. I haven’t been able to update the blog for a while but sharing my latest shenanigans seemed like a fun idea:

1) I finally graduated from the university! The last two months were crazy and honestly I was near burnout, but I managed to submit my thesis on time.

2) I’m still at the same old job I was before my graduation. I’m casually looking for new jobs which would be more suitable for me but at the moment I’m just happy to get paid. I’ve done a little research for options to gain money from different side projects, but I’m still trying to find a proper path to do something I’d enjoy.

3) I am now a proud owner of Nintendo Switch Lite! ...Yes, I did buy Animal Crossing, how did you know? I’ve also been got into playing Super Mario RPG on significant other’s SNES Mini

4) I really really really should continue Twin Peaks. I loaned the DVD’s from my buddy a couple months ago and it’s getting awkward if I won’t return them soon.

[zigcarnivorous]

[lejoursobre]

It was supposed to be a one page silly comics, but it turned into something more elaborated… oopsie :) I guess it’s my take on the “Star Trek but in the 60′” au that all tos fan must write/draw one day 0;) I’m thinking about a part 2

Bonus 1 : Jim, once back home.

Bonus : Spock, once back to ??? (how mysterious)

[nataliadycr]

my hand slipped: Stranger Things “kid” version

[heartstoppercomic]

chapter 5 - 11

Happy 1000 pages of Heartstopper!!

read from the beginning / read on tapas / my art blog / my personal blog / art instagram / heartstopper merch / read the next update early on Patreon!

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…?

Nick and Charlie are characters from my debut novel, Solitaire. Heartstopper updates three times a month, on the 1st, 11th, and 21st.

I really appreciate reblogs and shares - please help me spread word about this comic! I’m so excited for people to read it!

[celestial-bat]

FBI agent Dale Cooper: Ok so I had this weird ass dream

Twin Peaks police: Totally VALID investigation method. Go on

[geekvolving]

 I still haven’t finished my bachelor’s thesis but I did managed to watch all four Hunger Games movies for the 43258th time

[cannibalchicken]

[actualteenadultteen]

The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!

On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.

On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.

Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.

[antauri-the-hadozee]

“Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.”

THAT’S THE POINT SUZANNE COLLINS WAS TRYING TO MAKE

[lumos-of-my-life]

Think about these cute squishy kids being forced into a romance in order to survive

[impuretale]

And the threat of these cute squishy kids being forced into prostitution after the games are over. 

[my-graceless-heart]

REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN WITH A REMINDER THAT FINNICK WAS 14 WHEN HE WAS REAPED/WON THE GAMES AND WAS FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION SOON AFTERWARD

[venusdryad]

wait the kids were forced into prostitution after they won???

[a-terf]

Some of the Victors were, especially if they were attractive to lots of rich people during the games. How do you think you pay off the parachute things people send you to help you win the game? Those books were so fucked up

[berrygoodindeed-deactivated2022]

That’s why I feel like actual teens should have been cast in the movie. It would have hammered in the message of the books so much more.

[lvlnarrative]

And if they had cast actual teenages, I’m sure they wouldn’t have focus so much on romance in the films. They would have focus on the horror of the hunger games, like they damn well should have.

[moved--306389]

The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about

[binaominagata]

Just going to add in a few other things that a lot of people seem to miss because it was either de-emphasized or cut entirely from the movies:

-Haymitch Abernathy was 16 when he won the Hunger Games, and the Capitol attempted to force him into prostitution as they did with Finnick and many other popular victors. He refused, and in retaliation, they gradually killed off everyone he loved one by one—his friends from home, his family, his girlfriend. He began drinking heavily at a young age to deal with the trauma of the Games, the loss of everyone he’d ever cared about, and subsequently having to continually relive the trauma of the Games in mentoring roughly 50 children, two each year, whom he’d then have to send to their deaths in the Arena. 

-The Capitol also attempted to force Joanna Mason into prostitution. She, too, refused, and like with Haymitch, the Capitol retaliated by killing off everyone she loved one by one. She alludes to this in both the book and the movie version of Catching Fire, not flinching when she enters the Jabberjay area of the arena because there’s “no one left” that she loves. The movies don’t really explore this, though, while the books do more exploration both with everything the Capitol has taken from her and the lingering effects of her PTSD from her imprisonment by the Capitol. 

-The only reason Peeta and Katniss weren’t forced into prostitution was because the Capitol was too invested in the “Star-Crossed Lovers from District 12″ narrative. 

-Also, Katniss spent the latter half of her first Hunger Games deaf in one ear and had to have her middle and inner ear reconstructed after the Games—the explosion at the Cornucopia permanently fucked up her hearing in that ear. She’s able to hear again after the surgeries but never quite the same. 

-And Peeta had a prosthetic leg! He was severely injured while fleeing the “Mutts” at the end of the Games and was bleeding out from his leg by the time he and Katniss reached the Cornucopia. Katniss gave him a tourniquet using one of her last two arrows to tighten it. Doing so saved his life, but by the time the Capitol doctors took them out of the arena, the leg was beyond saving and had to be amputated. Katniss finds this out in their “post-Games” interview with Cesar Flickerman. 

-Just generally the movies glossed over or completely cut a lot of characters whose experiences in the games left them physically disabled (Katniss’s partial deafness and Peeta’s lost leg being cut entirely, Beetee’s spinal damage from the forcefield leaving him wheelchair-bound being largely kinda glossed over) or with PTSD (Katniss and Peeta’s PTSD isn’t really explored that much, Joanna’s PTSD is pretty much skipped over entirely, Annie’s barely in the movies at all, Haymitch’s entire backstory is cut, the fact that Finnick is basically just constantly putting on a show and barely holding it together under the surface isn’t ever really explored, pretty much all of the addiction subplots including Haymitch attempting to quit drinking and Katniss starting to drink at one point and everything related to morphling are cut…). 

-Basically as “rough” as the movies are they sanitized the FUCK out of the Hunger Games and the world surrounding them, and that’s…not a good thing.

TL;DR: @isashi-nigami is completely correct, The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about.

[bundibird]

Two things:

The only reason Katniss and Peeta were saved from prostitution was timing. After their own Games, the rumblings of rebellion had really started to gain traction. All victors have to do a celebratory circuit of all the Districts, but Peeta and Katniss’s celebration circuit was being used by Snow as a “everything’s fine, please don’t rebel, we’re just a pair of teenagers in live” prop tool for Snow to try and supress the rebellion. Peeta and Katniss were much more useful to him as teens in love than they were as prostitutes. Then we went straight from there to the 75th Games, in which Peeta and Katniss were fighters. Between being used to quell a revolution and having the Quarter Quell go the way it did, there was no time for Snow to loan them out to people. But had the timing been different – had there been no rebellion or had Peeta and Katniss not been central to it or had it all been delayed long enough for the post-games celebrations to die out, then yeah, they would have been sold to the highest bidder just like Finnick was.

I actually thibk that the fact that the film’s focussed on the romance and the glitz and glamour and etc was… accidentally clever, on Hollywood’s part. They certainly didn’t mean to do this, but they 100% replicated the Capitol’s attitude to the Games. They made it all about the entertainment, all about the story and the romance and the drama. So many people would have watched those movies and been taken in by the romance plot, and the revolutionary plot would have been secondary. The social commentary wouldn’t have even registered. Even the fact that they used older actors for the teens – in the books, Katniss and Peeta are never seen in public without a full face of make up once they’re Reaped. Katniss undergoes a full beauty treatment and not only is she wearing make up that makes her look older and more mature, but so is Peeta. The Capitol didn’t want them looking like fresh faced babies, and neither did Hollywood. If you watch those films merely for the entertainment they provide, then congrats. You’re the canon target audience of the Hunger Games. Hollywood was never going to make a movie that focuses on the true horrors of such a story, the way it should. Especially when the social commentary in the Hunger Games is terrifyingly similar to a social commentary on our society as a whole. No, no - they were always going to focus on the romance and the glitz and the glamour and the heroism. Which is……. kind of poetic, really. That they went and did the exact same thing that the villains did.

[dressedindustandshadows]

THIS MAN ^^^ I wrote an essay about the lack of humanity in this book and man I should’ve read this first

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The whole youthful and innocent vs older and sexy thing actually gets brought up at the end of the first book.

Cinna puts Katniss in a dress that is consciously designed to make her look much younger than she actually is, so as to play up the ‘teens in love’ angle they’re trying to sell the Capitol.

But the dress also has padding, so as to make her breasts and hips seem larger than they are, since she’s been literally on the verge of starvation for weeks, and wasn’t eating that much before that, and as a result she isn’t that curvy. Katniss is shocked by this, but Cinna explains that the dress was actually a compromise, because the original Capitol plan had been to give her plastic surgery.

Katniss then realises that none of the male tributes grew facial hair in the arena, even though several of them were old enough (note: she doesn’t say that all of them were old enough. Though Rue was the youngest, this suggests that there were other tributes who were young teenagers) and that something must have been done to them to prevent that from happening.

Also, it’s worth considering that Katniss and Peeta probably looked even younger than your typical sixteen year olds.

Katniss makes a big deal about how much they both get to eat at home, but if you read between the lines, Peeta lives off stale bread from the bakery and the odd bit of meat, and Katniss is essentially living the hunter gatherer lifestyle, supplemented by what they can buy from the baker and what they can get from Prim’s goat.

They’re much more well-nourished than the bulk of District Twelve, but Katniss can still easily spot the Career Tributes, because they’re the ones who have always had enough to eat. She’s one of the older (and therefore almost certainly heavier) tributes, but she still gets to hide in trees to get away from the Careers, because she’s significantly lighter than all of them.

Malnutrition tends to push back puberty. Katniss would probably be less well-developed than a modern teenager of the same age.

Notably, we don’t hear about her getting her period— or even wondering about that like she does with the facial hair— in the arena. Which, yeah, could be because of our culture’s habit of viewing menstruation as less kid-friendly than graphic child murder and mentions of prostitution, but it’s worth considering that in real life she might well have not started it yet.

While wearing the final interview dress, even with the padding to give her bigger breasts and wider hips, she says she looks about “fourteen at most”, which even accounting for Cinna’s borderline magical design skills, suggests that she probably tends to look like a younger teen even without it.

The Hunger Games would have been almost unbearably disturbing, if they hadn’t decided to cast almost all the characters as incredibly fit twenty somethings.

[geekvolving]

There’s a new book coming from Suzanne Collins!

Apparently The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released on 19 May in several languages? That’s dope. I’ve never seen that a book gets released simultaneously in several languages! And we’re talking about a prequel for Hunger Games trilogy, so I am super excited!

And the best part is that at that point I have (hopefully) done with my studies so I have time to read it!