#quick hits

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

Vicky should comment Mujeres <3 on Kika's next post/post about the concert

and esmee should comment team gayoza ftw 😘

also, sharing these memes (thank @hachenege)

i love when good things happen to good people!

this was her absolute best side guest for real!

she's a messy girl and she owns it!

[oddygaul]

Quick Hits #19 - Sinners, Didi, Dust Bunny, Hoppers

Sinners

I enjoyed this a lot. Despite all its genre trappings and supernatural twists, the characters at the heart of the story are what makes it work – even before the vampires show up, I was already invested in Sinners as a period drama. And even when things take a turn, all of the movie’s best moments are built upon its characters: Stack’s tragic death, the multiple dramatic standoffs as the baddies try to trick their way inside the building, Smoke’s hands shaking as he tries to roll a cigarette on his own for the first time in years.

That being said, I did love Sinners’ take on vampires. When the trio sings their first song outside the juke joint, I asked my partner, “Did that couple already know how to play these instruments, or does becoming a vampire just make you innately know how to play bluegrass?”

Little did I know!

Even if you put aside the metaphor of American whiteness assimilating other cultures into itself, the vampire hivemind is just a cool idea. I mean, the Irish vampire jam, their eyes glowing like coals in the dark as they riverdance? That’s good stuff.

v cool of the twins to wear these color coded hats until their character traits were established, thank u Ryan

Didi

Wow, I’ve never felt so catered to by a specific era of nostalgia – hearing someone say “that’s so wet” absolutely shook me to my core. Is this what boomers feel like all the time?

What makes this movie work for me, though, is that outside of its 2009 time capsule trappings and AIM notification sounds, it manages to land emotional beats that feel like the real teenage experience – moments like Didi’s sister helping him out after the party despite him being a shit to her, or Didi desperately needing to talk to somebody but rejecting his mom’s attempts anyway both resonated with my lived experience in ways I wasn’t expecting.

Dust Bunny

You know, I feel like I put “feature length Bryan Fuller film” on a pedestal for so long, I didn’t think about the fact that a movie actually gives you less time to languish in a particular setting than a TV series does. Smartly, though, Fuller chose a premise here that can more or less be satisfactorily explored within the runtime of a movie, so it doesn’t feel like it’s playing against his strengths. If anything, to be honest, Dust Bunny feels a little long – we spend an appropriate amount of time building the titular Dust Bunny up, but it then sticks around just long enough to lose its luster and mystery as we watch it kill off characters for nearly twenty minutes.

Still, if you like Fuller’s aesthetic, it’s got the goods. While the exterior shots were hit and miss, the hotel interiors and colors are all gorgeous. The cast of characters are classic Fuller fun too – Mads and Irora Aurora’s rapport is cute, I love how in Dust Bunny’s universe the FBI is comprised exclusively of dark-skinned black hotties, and Sigourney Weaver really makes the most of her role here and goes full scenery-chewing sociopath.

Hoppers

At one point, while the premise of the movie is being explained to her, Mabel excitedly exclaims “Guys, this is like Avatar!”

Hoppers: like Avatar, but for cowards who can’t admit that violence is justified when it’s against colonizers.

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[on-it]

[trickyclasspect]

hey hey! not sure if youre doing asks rn but how would a thief of breath <> page of time go?

this is sweet! The thief of breath can catalyze the page of time to break away from the apathy and obsession with precision that can plague a page of time, and the page of time can help rein in and focus the thief of breath’s more destructive social impulses

[leahazel]

I tried out the prologue for the new Voltage game.

I tried out the prologue for the new Voltage game. It’s technically a period piece, which is mildly interesting, and it’s prohibition-era, which under different circumstances would probably intrigue me more. Except that there’s already The Blind Griffin, and while it’s very short and has no female love interests, I enjoyed it tremendously the three or so times I played it through. Plus, the heroine of TBG is just fantastic. 

Anyway, the new game. Only the first few routes have made their appearance, but the prologue handily introduces all the many, many (many!) love interests. A little clumsily, but at least it’s super clear on what’s going on. There are about seven or eight male love interests, and one woman. 

This is the story of a brash and outgoing girl of indeterminate age (if I had to guess I’d say no older than twenty) whose overprotective mother was worried about her hard-partying ways. So she sent her to live with her stern uncle. In Chicago. Which is clearly the best place in which to protect a young girl from the seedier aspects of life, such a good place that they even named a musical after it. 

The MC is full of vim, and is meant to be quite clever and qualified. She doesn’t super sell it, though. It takes her the entire prologue to figure out what was immediately obvious to me as a reader, which is that her temperance campaigner uncle is secretly running a speakeasy under his shop. But anyway, she’s a lively and strong-willed girl, and that has its appeal. Runs a little close to “feisty” for my tastes but it’s hard to tell from such a short sample. 

Verdict: I don’t know if I’ll get into it. Then again, it’s definitely better than L&L and I read almost a dozen episodes of that before I gave up. The background art is beautiful. The sprites are nice also, a style much more favorable I think than L&L’s had. It also remains to be seen whether there’s an overarching story to the different routes. Bottom line is, Astoria is still the best. If you can’t get more of that, fanfic is the only way to go. 

Crossposted to Dreamwidth. 

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

Wow, Alexia is loaded. That house must cost a fortune.

speaking personally as someone who is looking to buy in barcelona in the next decade or so, that house alone, which is in barcelona proper, costs *several million* euros.

alexia is someone who is doing *very well* for herself. 😌

alexia has more money than she knows what to do with. and hopefully is making smart investments (i'm quite sure she is).

can you imagine? we never would have survived lol

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

Things I’m paying an Etsy/Tiktok witch to handle this week:

1. Barca wins the final on Saturday

2. Alexia signs a lifetime Barca contract, and we never have to go through another contract renewal cycle

3. The Galician rat dwarf gets even shorter

4. Defense contractor Kang leaves Barca players alone

5. A curse is put on the toxic anon spamming your inbox today (NEW)

Anything else to ask for?!

6. pervert pere gets kicked out of the club

7. alexia finally makes it to a rosi concert and does the confessional and ends that influencer wannabe for good

thank you, anon!

pina plays the best when she is angry!

barça and lyon are the two best teams in europe and have a long history against each other.

it's a lot easier to beat barça over one leg, than two. it's 50-50 for either team, but keep the faith.

she basically pulled a joan lmao

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

Did you see Diani will miss the uwcl final? Knee ligament injury that needed surgery 😬 that's just horrible for her getting so close to the final and then that happens obviously wishing her a speedy recovery.

Just reminds you that these kinds of things can happen at any time and now I'm going to be worried about the girls every time they step on the pitch until the final and we have the Copa de la Reina final as well, someone light a candle and say a prayer for everyone to get to the final without injury😭

yes, the timing is super unfortunate for her. injuries can happen anytime (like kika had to go through last season with the final, and laia this year).

so we definitely want everyone fit and healthy for the next two weeks, and no injuries with copa de la reina, even though they have assigned the absolute worst ref to officiate 😭

impossible to beat

cata

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