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Scanlon

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Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves is basically The Legend Of Vox Machina the movie isn’t it?

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Onward, Dan Scanlon (2020)

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Onward Review

Onward was directed by Dan Scanlon. It stars Tom Holland and Chris Pratt. The story of two brothers who go on an adventurous quest to try and bring their father back.

As always, Pixar hits this one on the head. I loved this movie. It was perfect, fun and friendly. The perfect movie for kids and for adults. I love Chris Pratt and Tom Holland and they play off each other so well. Even though they were animated they voice acted in a way that pulled on your heart strings.

The most ironic part of this is that I have been wanting to play Dungeons and Dragons for a while - I just am a visual person so not having anything visual in front of me causes some boredom when I try to play D&D. But this film has made me want to play it again. While these characters ended up able to actually use the magic, but the heart of the story lies in D&D.

I also loved the ending - I will not spoil it for you but it wasn’t exactly what I would have expected from a Pixar film. It was perfect and I was actually super happy with how they ended it. Normally you can tell what’s going to happen, and how these stories will end. But this one - to me - came out of left field.

And since the world is in such a weird state now, you can watch Onward on demand! It had been in theaters when the pandemic hit, and this therefore pushed the release to streaming services earlier. This is a perfect film to watch with your family during this time!

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Army officer says she was raped, but Supreme Court ruling blocks her from justice

Former Captain Erin Scanlon alleges the military mishandled her rape case.

Of the numerous setbacks she says she's faced in the last three years, it's hard for her to pinpoint where she feels it all went wrong.

Her ordeal, she says, started on the night of Sept. 10, 2016, when Scanlon, a former fire support officer in the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division who left the military last month, claimed she was raped by another Army service member in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She was a first lieutenant at the time of the alleged assault and made captain in February 2019.

But from there her predicament only worsened: The military took over the case from civilian criminal court a week before trial was set to begin, and one of her former special victims counsels, her advocate in the military legal system, was ordered to testify against her about a witness Scanlon didn't disclose until late in the court martial process.

Scanlon says she then wasn't allowed to sit in on the trial or see any transcript and that, now, she has no legal recourse to file a suit against the Army primarily because of a controversial 1950 Supreme Court ruling that prevents service members from suing the government.

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An eye-catching reminder from 1960 that art in public collections belongs to the public. The Picasso show at the Tate that year was the UK’s first blockbuster art exhibition according to this Guardian piece.

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Just finished The Search for Grog. It was so surreal seeing them playing the old characters with all the old habits and running gags. I’ll remove the spoiler tags after a week or so.